This military buildup on Guam is viewed as permanently anchoring the U.S. in the region, and cementing our resident power status.

China's evolution has changed the regional economic balance, has enabled China to expand its political influence.

No other topic brings into light the enormous and complex challenges facing the United States in Asia.

Strategy is like birth control, that the possibility of an incident increases if you cease to take the necessary precautions.

Gentlemen, I appreciate your coming today, your testimony was very valuable, and we will be following this issue very closely over the coming months.

I would say that--frankly, I think there's a great concern in the Vietnam Government about this.

we have a serious vulnerability in our relationship with China that feeds a lot of the anxieties on these other issues

What you have is a clear example of incrementalism, which has not been properly responded to.

The cap-and-tax legislation that the Congress passed a few weeks ago, I think ignores the need to increase domestic production of oil and natural gas and nuclear power and so on.

I have struggled with that with my dairy farmers in Virginia, who ship their milk greater and greater and greater distances primarily because of the nature of this policy and the way it works.

I am also very concerned about the direction that our government is taking in terms of increasing the input costs to dairy farmers.

I believe that needs to be overhauled.

And is it also true, to your knowledge, that there is no Federal standard in terms of crashworthiness and safety of passengers on transit systems; there is for rail systems like Amtrak, but there is not for transit?

This is the Nation's Capital. It's arguably been called the capital of the free world. And the Federal Government has some responsibility, beyond the initial construction costs, to help make sure that system remains healthy and safe.

we also need to have the active commitment of President Barack Obama and his administration to find emergency stimulus dollars for immediate assistance with these infrastructure issues.

I believe that if Congress acts to finalize the $150 million for fiscal year 2010, that D.C., Maryland, and the Commonwealth of Virginia will all find the matching funds to bring together $300 million annually for each of the next 10 years.

Without Tom's visions, this Congress would never have come up with the idea of a $150 million matching grant.

It is a great privilege for me to sit up here and welcome back to this committee our distinguished former chairman, Tom Davis.