It is hard for anyone who has led soldiers in combat to disagree, just as the moms and dads of more than 186,000 soldiers deployed in over 140 countries could never disagree.

So I guess the question not for you but a question for ourselves is, as a subcommittee, why should we provide you more resources, if you're not going to follow the laws that we write and expect to be followed?

ignored bipartisan concerns raised by Congress

I have heard repeatedly that the current cap on the high-cost fund is set too low.

As members of this subcommittee, we have an obligation to ensure that decisions about Federal funding and policy are made with taxpayers in mind.

Mr. Chairman, it is extremely important for companies to find efficiencies and be restrained in the expenditure of USF monies.

So is the cap adequate?

CROA reform is something on which I will continue to be engaged, particularly as we look forward to the new arbitration rulemaking.

As Chairman Boozman aptly put it, there is an obvious disregard for Congress' instructions here.

undermin[ing] Congress' clear intent to preserve JSAs

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