Evan Bayh

The budget materials claim to rebalance the force. Yet without a decrease in operational tempo, force readiness continues to be consumed as quickly as it is created.

Reduction to any appropriation account increases the risks of not being able to meet our mission requirements.

Any action by Congress to reduce the budget request for Defense to fund programs not requested by the administration increases the risk for current and future warfighters.

Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, what additional training is being provided to those forces that will move directly into Afghanistan from Iraq?

How confident are you that the supplemental request will or will not be sufficient to cover all costs, considering the disaster assistance currently being provided to Haiti by our military forces?

Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, what are the cost implications for reset/reconstitution given increases in troop levels and new platforms such as MRAP vehicles and Multipurpose All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs)?

Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, is the reset funding request for fiscal year 2011 sufficient and when will we begin to see a return on its investment in reset in terms of improved readiness?

As DOD begins to increase troop levels in Afghanistan, the Army and Marine Corps have been adjusting their plans to redeploy equipment from Iraq.

I want you to, if you can, please relay our appreciation for the service they're rendering our country.

In Afghanistan, my own view is that skeptics who look at that conflict and say, we're going to do our part, we're making a major commitment to stabilizing that country, to keeping the Taliban and the al Qaeda from having a platform to…

Some of the practices that have been allowed to exist for too long in DOD contracting of weapons systems would never survive in the private sector.

Harry Truman would be proud. You're focused on saving the taxpayers' money.