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I came into this commission believing that it's likely we have a real problem with pay and benefits.

I think that it would be a wrong thing to do and send a terrible signal.

Strike 'probably.' It was you and the executive.

I think that would be a wrong thing to do and send a terrible signal.

Our goal is to improve the quality of paying benefits for our military.

It would be unfair to identify military retirement as the big problem, because it isn't. The big problem is Social Security and Medicare.

Do you have specific proposals that the commission recommended?

Well, first of all, I think you would be having a difficult time retraining men and women to serve in the military had this Congress not made all of the changes that it made since we have been fighting this war for the last 14 years.

I think the moment that ends, no matter what you pay men and women, they are not going to sign up.

Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in government charged with certification with release of detainees. I take that responsibility very seriously.

Not everyone at the White House has agreed with me.

I personally would like to see the Highway Trust Fund used for roads and bridges.

I would be very happy to work with you on those, with my office, especially so we can stop the redundancy that I believe is happening.

That would be great if we can do that.

I am talking about very sparsely populated areas, where in many cases there is one person per square mile.

I couldn't agree with you more.

I think those reviews need to be performance-oriented, not solely process-based and certainly not inflexible.

I look forward to working with Senator Menendez, Chairman Shelby, and other Members of this Committee to build a bipartisan veto-proof majority to enact the Kirk-Menendez Iran legislation to decisively end Iran's nuclear threat once and…