Health Promotion, Risk Reduction, and Suicide Prevention in the Army, portrayed a personnel picture that was very sobering.

Finish the work we are in to bind up the Nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan.

I want to hit you where it might make a difference.

I hope that you will ask Kevin about his experience at the East-West Center.

We all know our concerns with China's growing force.

The East-West Center is really America's diplomatic center in the Pacific.

If we end the budget at $10 million, for example, it just couldn't operate.

The goal of the East-West Center is to basically do cooperative study, training, and research.

APEC represented to us in Hawaii the ability to have a different kind of stability.

I would ask for support of funding for the East-West Center to the extent of 21 million.

These are the kinds of friends that we make, and I know from having talked with the leaders of the East-West Center...

I mean, I doubt we could fulfill the mandates that we are getting from our Federal partners.

This meeting here is just as important to me; it is just that we have to be in three different places at one time anymore.

Let's assume that the money that you have been budgeted last year will be cut by 50 percent. What do we do collectively?

Mr. Gross was not arrested by U.S. policy. He was arrested by the Cuban regime.

I would urge the subcommittee to cease funding of the program in Cuba until there is a justification and evidence that the program is working and helping the people it was set up to help.

I have to say that your statement in support of repeal of alternative minimum tax is music to my ears.

I am here to urge the committee to defund the democracy promotion programs with respect to those programs that are operating in Cuba.