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I feel this is unwise and would have a particularly negative effect on large rural states such as mine.

During your Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 28, 2009, understanding the sensitivities surrounding this matter, I asked you what you thought of strategically dispersing our carrier fleet on the east coast and whether or not…

As our Nation's veteran owned small businesses encounter a challenging environment, it is important that we continue to provide oversight on small business opportunities for veterans and service disabled veterans, and review laws that are…

I applaud these efforts and the work of the thousands of Federal employees tasked to assist our Nation's veterans.

I am a little concerned we are going to be dealing with it in the surface transportation bill.

I look forward to working with all of you and hope that we can find some solutions and some good results for the American people.

It is important the positions be filled in a timely manner by qualified nominees who are ready to take on many of the challenges that face our country.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Senator Hutchison, for holding today's hearing, and I want to thank our panel for their willingness to serve.

We have an over-dependence upon foreign energy.

On his Defense Budget Recommendation Statement on 6 April 2009, Secretary Gates described these decisions as the product of 'a holistic assessment of capabilities, requirements, risks and needs for the purpose of shifting the department in…

To me, this proposal to delay development of the Next Generation Bomber until post-START arms control talks are completed appears problematic.

The men and women who serve our Nation honorably deserve and should receive the best our country can offer.

What we do in the Independent Living Program, although it is a small program currently, is so vitally important.

I am hoping that we can perhaps figure out a way to expedite this EIS process.

I hope that the Department will move quickly on both those programs.

Thank you all very much. I appreciated very much your testimony and your very candid observations.

Gentlemen, the Army maintains sets of prepositioned stocks of combat support vehicles for contingency use.

Thank you all very much for your testimony.