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What assurance can you provide that the headquarters cuts and cuts generally undertaken by the Department will take into account contractors as well as civilians and military?

I supported an Andrews amendment to the FY14 NDAA at the House markup to extend a cap on service contracting by two additional years.

I want to know that we will begin to see tangible actions that support our statements emphasizing our support in the region.

The OSD Organizational Review is intended to achieve a 20% cut in total headquarters budgets.

Will the Army continue to use BMM consistent with the commitments Secretary McHugh made in his correspondence?

To what extent will your component generate savings in management headquarters workforce spending through insourcing, consistent with 10 USC 2463?

That doesn't make any sense.

How can we achieve greater transparency over service contract costs so that we can impose and actually enforce caps and cuts in service contract spending?

I am concerned that our commitment may appear to be nothing more than rhetoric to our allies in the region.

To what extent in FY12 did the Army over-execute spending on service contracts and under-execute spending on civilian personnel?

The Army's historic leadership on the inventory of contract services does the Army great credit.

Are non-civilian personnel involved in making recommendations for reductions in total headquarters budgets? If so, how have the inevitable conflicts of interests been addressed?

Both the Congress and the Administration have identified instances in which contractor personnel are inappropriately performing functions that are inherently governmental.

The MSA rebuilding requirements established in 1996 and 2006 have been responsible for the recovery of 33 depleted stocks.

If it depends on honesty, I am not so sure this proposal would ever materialize.

I am supportive of limited military intervention against Syria.

I hope that our discussion today about Limited Maintenance Resources in the Navy's nonnuclear Surface Force will encourage members of both parties to get leadership back to the table in a meaningful way.

Cuts to defense and other discretionary programs will have significant negative impacts on the long-term economic growth of the country.