I am grateful to be working with the Gold Star Wives in support of enactment of H.R. 775, which would eliminate the SBP/DIC offset.

I appreciate you bringing up the issue of the home of record and the difficulties that can be in providing services.

We hope that you will be able to fix a glitch in the combat-related special compensation law that causes some to lose the pay that Congress meant for them.

It is my view that Congress can find the additional funding required to protect the men, the women, and their families who make incredible daily sacrifices in service to our Nation.

Madam Chair, based on my review of the testimony submitted to us, the recommendations made by the various groups fall into two broad categories: one, those that are strictly policy issues that require little or no additional funding; and…

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman Davis, for holding this hearing today.

We believe that a civilian-style plan is inappropriate for military service conditions.

This testimony will surely help to shape our legislative and funding priorities as we strive to improve the military personnel, health care, and morale, welfare and recreation (MWR) systems of the Department of Defense.

We think the Pentagon needs to focus more on fixing TRICARE and less on trying to charge more for it.

I am especially grateful that we will hear today from Ms. Margaret McCloud, a Gold Star Wife whose husband, Lieutenant Colonel Trane McCloud, was killed in action in Iraq.

if we are going to have a strong recovery, it has to be on the back of a stabilization of the financial system

as we look at regulatory reform, we need to ask the question, are all the sectors of the economy that need oversight, are they being watched by somebody or are there major gaps where there is no effective oversight where there needs to be

We got involved in them, frankly, because there is no clear resolution authority, in the United States for dealing with systemically critical failing institutions except for banks.

So the purpose of the test is to try to ensure that even in a bad scenario, banks will have enough capital.

Honestly, Senator, I think it is not up to me to make that judgment.

It seems more appropriate, given the close relationship between the Federal and State governments, for that to be the locus of addressing those issues.

I think the idea of using a public-private partnership in an asset purchase facility is potentially appealing.

evaluating the benefits of purchasing long-term Treasury securities.