Most importantly, the strategy reaffirms the administration's support of the All-Volunteer Force and maintaining the rea...
This strategy moves from having a capability to fight two major theater wars, to instead defeating a major adversary in ...
this subcommittee has that assignment of preventing sequestration, and we will do our absolute best. I can assure you th...
Chairman Inouye, as a Medal of Honor winner who has personally witnessed the horrors of combat, I wanted to bring to you...
You've brought up a matter that's very personal to me because during the war I got about 30 transfusions. I just must ha...
Our economy, our country is facing a budget deficit, and you have been tasked with significantly reducing the Department...
If a deficit reduction agreement is not reached, DOD will take its first increment of an across-the-board reduction of n...
Chairman Inouye and Ranking Member Cochran, you and this entire subcommittee have been leaders in the effort to continue...
Since the very beginning of this program in 1992, the Congress has stood with us in support of this important approach i...
This year's budget proposes significant force structure changes for the Air National Guard, reducing end-strength by 5,1...
I'm certain you're aware that this subcommittee is deeply concerned about the rising rate of suicides. We will make cert...
The Congress has provided additional equipment funding for the Guard and Reserve in each of the last 32 years because ye...
On behalf of the subcommittee, I thank the Surgeons General, and the Chief of the Nurses Corps, and we look forward to w...
I find this rather strange.
He recognized the power of education to further civil rights, and he strongly supported Historically Black Colleges and ...
He truly saw his life's work as a way to serve others and make the world a better and more just place.
Don's compassion extended to those suffering abroad. He worked tirelessly to promote democracy around the world.
we have seen some economic growth, but it has not yet hit home in many ways.