It is important to me and to my constituents that NOAA remain committed to seeing through the full implementation of the...
Well, let me just say that there was nothing that would have prevented CMS from implementing those provisions prior to t...
Congress has certainly had a major role in creating that situation, and I think we have to own up to that.
For this year, we have met our recruiting goals.
Full sequestration would take you to 420,000.
If you take us to sequestration, we have already said that is going to be 175,000.
We hope the Army does not go to 420,000, but it is probably going to somewhere in the neighborhood of 450,000.
Are there morale issues in terms of multiple deployments, longer deployments? Is there a stress factor on your men and w...
It was designed to be stupid and it succeeded brilliantly.
Risk equals young men and women's lives.
We need to have our entire combat air forces, 80 percent of that has to be ready in 30 days.
I feel that once somebody is in the Service, they have earned what they are entitled to.
To the extent we can do that, that to me would be a very high priority.
I hope if we have to make those decisions, you will stand behind us.
I think it is really important to realize that what we have is a breathing space, not a solution.
If we don't have the certainty of the 10-ship buy, we end up paying more per ship and getting fewer ships.
I am concerned that we continue to move further away from the number of ships we actually need to protect our national s...
I am hopeful that we can again produce a bipartisan funding bill to support our military.
