Just a question out of curiosity. We talk about a coordinated policy for us to support the temporary government that has been formed in Somalia.

Thank you again for the opportunity to testify. I'm happy to take questions.

So it's under the auspices of the U.N?

I take it that the two organizations--the two terrorist organizations, al-Shabaab and the other that you mentioned--really play on the nationalist pride of the Somali people.

Who operates the camp?

The National Guard and Reserve Retired Pay Equity Act

If there is something with respect to those Interstate Compacts that you think we need to deal with legislatively, I wish you would give us some recommendations there.

I appreciate Senator Graham's comment about TRICARE, and your responses are pretty interesting.

There is no reason, Ms. Smith, you ought to be required to fund private school for your children because schools in Washington, DC are inadequate.

We appreciate your service. We understand that a commitment to the military is a family commitment.

I hope you'll work to make sure it's statistically accurate, fair, and it's a real count and not a model count.

I really encourage that type of input to be brought in.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And congratulations to all of you on your appointment.

I think those families deserve, particularly on the qualification questions, with regard to that aircraft and the pilots, a response so that something like that does never happen again--

I have some concern with the slowness of the deployment of next-generation as far as FAA is concerned.

I think this is the most despicable, dishonest and vicious political effort I've seen in my lifetime.

I want to congratulate you and the ranking member for holding this very important hearing regarding insurance regulation reform.

I was very pleased, as was Chairman Feingold, with the appointment of Gen. Scott Gration as the special envoy to the Sudan.