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It strikes me that rather than an arbitrary date for leaving Afghanistan, it should be based upon conditions on the field.

I would suggest--and I hope you agree--that one of your missions is to continually assess the readiness and effectiveness of the ANSF.

I believe you indicated in your prior submission that you felt it would be important for our country to accede to the Law of the Sea Treaty.

The Navy has no icebreaker capacity in the Arctic?

We have one 45-year-old Coast Guard icebreaker. Is that correct?

I think it is important that the provision adopted by this committee not only would prohibit the buying of the remaining group, but immediately cut off spare parts which would, in effect, over a fairly short period of time, ground the…

I commend you for taking this command and look forward to working with you on it.

I certainly hope people are listening around here, because ever since I've been here everybody's been saying that, but it doesn't seem to change.

I think the next Pearl Harbor is going to be cyber.

We would look with great concern on the use of force or coercion in the region.

I hope that you will take this as a very serious threat before it materializes.

Do you agree that this is a significant issue that we need to pay attention to, just as we do compensation, training, and other matters under the jurisdiction of this committee?

I think there are large portions of the industrial base that are in threat simply because the amount of spending and investments and research and development (R&D) have been coming down.

Not through any malice but just not understanding that this is supposed to be exempt.

We need to make sure that everyone in the Social Security Administration and all the other government programs where this is applicable are aware of, and apply properly and expansively, this principle.

I think it is even more likely that the Social Security personnel in states with very few survivors would not understand that those payments are not to be counted toward eligibility for programs like SSI.

Do you think that the Claims Conference should expand its work in negotiating payments from the German government to include other countries as well?

I think that reflects an institutional bias in programs that we have at the Federal level.