There is a significant cost to doing this.

We believe changes to CFATS that require implementation or enhance scrutiny of any single-risk reduction option such as the mandatory consideration or implementation of inherently safer technology are unnecessary and would be overly…

I will ride in on that and yes, process safety and especially in the development of new facilities is the best time to implement safer technologies or new technologies that you have in place.

A quarter of a billion dollars, $250 million dollars since 2002.

The vulnerabilities identified in the inspections need to be addressed for your site security plan to be approved.

We definitely should not start over. I mean, we have made a lot of progress.

I don't think we should mandate any particular tool, especially IST.

Mr. Speaker, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of Dillon, South Carolina, is the latest leading economist to admit that out-of-control deficits could hurt our national economy. Last week, Mr. Bernanke warned, ``Sustained high rates of…

The Subcommittee received complaints that MWR activities were inappropriately engaged in providing personal information services to service members when private sector vendors were available to provide the services.

What is the status of the lifestyle center at Fort Bliss and is AAFES moving forward with lifestyle center options at other locations?

Madam Speaker, yesterday, Byron York, in the Washington Examiner, correctly recognized the memory of Ronald Reagan on the 100th anniversary of the President's birth. Without question, President Reagan stood for policies like lower taxes…

Well, that information needs to be shared with Members of Congress, and I will.

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to welcome everyone to the second meeting of the 112th Congress of the Military Personnel Subcommittee.

A simple review of the math suggests that the 5 percent surcharge may not generate sufficient cash to support a facility recapitalization program for the Defense Commissary Agency.

A recent review of products sold in commissaries revealed that some brand name products are only sold in commissaries and currently fail to meet the requirement to sell the same brand name in the private sector.

And I share the same personal view of Mr. Gordy. And I have had two sons serve in Iraq, another served in Egypt, and I have a fourth that will be deployed one day.

And so I want to thank all of you for being here today on behalf of military service members, military families, veterans, widows.

Only in Washington can we have the debate over how desperately New York and the U.N. needs $100 million, while simultaneously arguing that not giving that money to the U.N. would not result in any savings for the U.S. taxpayer. If money is…