I have consistently said that we can rationally evaluate our national security strategy, our defense expenditures, and the current set of missions we ask the military to undertake and come up with a strategy that enhances national security…

I am particularly interested in the new laydown, the shift in the focus to the Asian theater.

A lot has changed in the last 10 years, and it has certainly made sense to have the top leadership at the Pentagon get together and look at those changes.

We must prevent this. Now, it is possible and I think highly likely, actually, that we would come in, in December, and find a way to avoid sequestration.

I truly believe that the plan that you put forth does the best job of doing that that we could do in our uncertain world.

I do share the Chairman's concerns about sequestration. I think it is just not debatable that it would be devastating.

I think you have done a great job.

I think you have given an excellent summary of the challenges facing the Marine Corps and the Navy.

If the goal of the ongoing series of hearings on President Obama's regulatory reform to ensure that that was the case, that regulations be simple, clear, and reasonable, I would be in complete support of these continued hearings.

Eight hearings to talk about the same thing without any progress seems to me to be kind of a waste of time.

The Republican majority supports regulatory reform and we have had hours and hours of hearings on this subject.

I think it would be incredibly important to this debate and to this committee to hear from women.

the implementation of the NNSA Act failed to achieve the intended autonomy for NNSA within the Department of Energy.

Why aren't we making any progress in improving the governance and management structure for the labs?

Would GAO be comfortable with an oversight model whereby NNSA sets auditable performance standards for the labs, audits to those standards once a year, and then holds the contractor accountable for not meeting the standards?

The Congress' role in this matter is to state clearly that it wishes this rebalancing to occur.

the relationship between the labs and NNSA has strayed from the original intent of the labs as federally funded research and development corporations

The NAS study committee identifies a loss of trust between the NNSA and its labs as a key problem...