"Understand that the private sector is also very much invested in helping to bring this about."
"I would like to see us work with local airport officials to try to get to a place where you can have an international arrivals capability."
"I am going to be an advocate here for the two non-contiguous States, Hawaii and Alaska, where air travel is essentially our only option."
"There is nothing like seeing first-hand the challenges as well as the opportunities that we have."
"I want to start by saying that I am disappointed in the overall MILCON reductions, as I am sure all of you are."
"I hope that the risks taken on by delaying some of these projects will be mitigated as additional MILCON funds become available."
"I know that there's pressure everywhere in the DOD budget; tradeoffs have to be made while managing RIFs."
"So while there have been some improvements, then given the severity of the problem, more can be done?"
"I believe that there is enough on the commander's plate, and the fact that there is just entirely too many conflicts of interest..."
"Let us just tell perpetrators: 'don't rape.' Okay. So you get all the perpetrators in a room and tell them 'don't rape,' but you are still going to allow them to serve?"
"The figures are some 22,000-plus sexual assaults occur in the military in a given year, and only a very insignificant number of these crimes are ever reported to the chain of command."
"You, too, support removing the chain of command from the decision to prosecute these crimes?"
"97 percent of our prisoners do get released into the community, so we really need to pay attention to what is happening with them."
"I am especially concerned about reports that women are confined in solitary for reporting abuse, including sexual abuse, by the Bureau of Prisons staff."
"Thank you very much to all of the testifiers for making the trek to Washington, DC."
"When is this priority going to start taking place or showing through in very real and practical ways?"
"one of the assets that the East-West Center provides is at that grass roots level where you're having that exposure and that engagement"
"I just want to say thank you so much for your commitment to service, your dedication to duty."
