I truly appreciate your leadership and being true to your word to craft a bill to assist Puerto Rico.

So we are doing all that we can to be proactive in ensuring that what is happening to Puerto Rico does not happen to the rest of us.

I remain disappointed that the bill does not address issues such as Medicaid, the EITC, and government pensions.

As a representative from the Asia-Pacific area, I would like to start off by expressing my sincere sympathy for the people of Belgium and for the family of the marine killed this weekend in Iraq.

So I am asking, Secretary Carter, what role the administration sees for Guam in the broader strategy; should Congress continue moving forward with construction on Guam?

Thank you very much, and I want to thank all the witnesses today.

it seems that all I have heard for the last few weeks, months, is readiness, readiness.

I have serious concerns about the Navy's assessments and will continue working to ensure that our forward deployed assets have quality and secure maintenance that American workers and equipment provide without losing weeks of presence.

Budget constraints and continued funding unpredictability, resulting from years of sequestration and continuing resolutions [CRs], have hampered the ability of the services to man, train, and equip the forces they need to fill critical…

We are very conscious about the security of the ships and the assets.

What risks to national security are accepted by having integral maintenance completed by foreign workers in overseas shipyards?

Since 2006, the Navy has nearly doubled the percentage of the fleet assigned to overseas home ports.

one size does not fit all. It just depends on the circumstances.

the delicate balance between readiness and modernization in today's atmosphere of fiscal constraint.

Thank you Mr. Chairman. General McDew, question for you.

Transportation Command as a functional combatant command plays an integral role in the central planning and the execution for the movement of our forces and their equipment.

I hope that you help us better understand how these fiscal conditions have affected readiness within TRANSCOM, and where our committee in Congress, as a whole, can stop the damage and begin to repair our force.

I am concerned that we need to have enough cargo flow to ensure that our airlift industry... have enough business to keep the capacity we will need in the next conflict.