In achieving the right mix for the Total Force, how does the Department of Navy use the annual inventory of inherently governmental and commercial activities, and associated manpower mix determinations, to identify the civilian workforce…

Now, I understand the U.S. is renegotiating the agreement with Japan and not all the figures are worked out. I seriously am concerned that the majority of these marines relocating to Guam may now be rotational.

Given the civilian personnel constraints first reflected in last year's budget and continued in the FY13 submission, can you certify in full accordance with 10 USC sections 129 and section 129a?

This committee was recently made aware of a decision to convert functions at Naval Shipyard Portsmouth to contract performance.

Please provide a detailed list of all exceptions the Department of Navy has had approved to date.

I was glad to hear some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle in reference to their grandchildren and the concern that they have about the long-term impact of deficits on their grandchildren's lives.

Hopefully, the Members that have made those references will go back and take a hard look at their own records, because they have certainly been participants, willing, very enthusiastic participants, of adding to the deficit in recent…

It is insane to modernize and replace the uranium and plutonium processing facilities that support the U.S. nuclear deterrent when the plants we have now work just fine.

to say that we could reduce our civilian workforce would dramatically affect our ability to perform the mission.

I don't believe in blind trust.

I have been a strong supporter of the act since its enactment in 1994.

We are broke.

Is the search for operational capacity something that we should be concerned about?

the amendment that I authored and was passed 100 to nothing on sanctioning the Central Bank of Iran...

I think that targeting the IRGC is exactly right.

I do believe the Obama administration has actually engaged in more sanctioning activities and enforcement of sanctions activity than ever before.

We live in a new world. It is a world in which an airplane used for commercial and business travel has become a weapon of mass destruction.

There have been independent sources that have stated that Hezbollah has training camps in the jungles of Venezuela.