Do you support efforts to level the playing field so that advanced biofuels qualify for the same tax incentives...

It's that inequity that I want to address and that I have addressed each year that I have been here.

I think, when we talk about performance, and I am sure you will agree, we need to talk not just the speed of getting things to market, but making sure they are safe when they get there.

I want to ask you two gentlemen, Dr. Maisel and Dr. Nexon, if you would comment on the tension between safety and the need to innovate new technologies.

Sadly, the Government received a grade of 'F' on its efforts to enhance the Nation's capabilities for rapid response to prevent biological attacks from inflicting mass casualties.

I have never seen the degree of angst and upset that we have right now.

Has their matter been presented in some of the testimony here?

Amplify.

Is there earlier testimony on the record as to the increased cost as a result of these delays?

Do you think there are undue delays?

We ask Congress to allow medically-retired servicemembers and their families to maintain the Active Duty family TRICARE benefit for a transition period of 3 years following the date of medical retirement.

We are also grateful to Senator Bill Nelson his sponsorship of S. 260 to remove the SBP/DIC offset.

The Coalition supports S. 260, Senator Nelson's bill, to end the Dependency and Indemnity Compensation offset to the Survivor Benefit Plan.

We must completely eliminate the SBP/DIC offset.

never in our history have so few borne so much of the burden of war for so long.

Obviously, we are in a tough fiscal environment, and obviously, there are many worthy pieces of legislation to be funded.

Interestingly, the cost is dropping. As the survivors increasingly diminish in number, the cost of this, actuarially projected, is dropping.

There's a longstanding problem in our military survivor benefit system.