I appreciate very much you bringing up the employment impact, which is certainly something for us all to think about as well.

Thank you for raising that very important issue, which is one that concerns me as well.

I see tremendous potential for seniors whose vision has diminished to the point where they no longer can safely drive being able to use these autonomous vehicles so that they can maintain a measure of independence and not be dependent on…

A new motto, Mr. Chairman. Support our warriors. Hire the spouse.

in his 50 years of Government service, he has never seen a more complex, dangerous, and growing threat environment than what we are facing today.

The Guard rests to some extent on the good will and support of employers, and I am hearing resistance from employers.

We have got to build in flexibility for the family when the duty station changes but the school is still not done.

Certainly we cannot avoid--or should we avoid budgetary considerations? We all have to live within budgets.

The retention is so important because if we could move the average retention out a year, that would be a significant savings across the board because of the training costs.

I think we need to balance the things we ask of our services to do and especially in uncertain times like we have today.

The largest question before this committee is, are we recruiting and retaining the people that we need?

we are doing these drawdowns based upon decisions about budgets made in 2011 before ISIS, before Syria, before North Korea nuclear, before the South China Sea, before the Ukraine.

The other thing I would like for the record-- I had a conversation this morning with the Admiral, that 84 percent of his incoming recruits are from military families.

I would just like your thoughts on how that looks now from the field.

The cessation of hostilities is certainly better than the all-out war we were seeing before.

In fact, the language that we put in the Omnibus gives NOAA the flexibility to substitute other funds.

Will you direct your NOAA officials who are going to be at the forum this weekend to truly sit down with our fishermen and try to work out a solution that does not result in even more of the ground fishermen in my State and throughout New…

That law, that requirement, to consider China as a non-market economy, has directly benefitted American workers seeking to combat unfair and illegal trade practices by China.