President Bush indicated that as troop levels in Iraq decreased, many of those forces would be redeployed to Afghanistan...
Each event offers opportunities for the U.S. and the Iraqis, but also dangers.
It has now been over 7 years since the initial call up and mobilization of National Guard and Reserve Forces in support ...
NATO is, first and foremost, a military alliance committed to the security of its members.
Afghanistan stands at a crossroads, and that the progress achieved over the previous 6 years was threatened by resurgent...
I expect we will all hear President Obama himself lay out his priorities for NATO at the 60th Anniversary Summit in Apri...
I believe that the administration must consider the defense industrial base, such as the 95,000 (direct and indirect) jo...
I am also concerned about the apparent lack of a coherent civil-military plan for integrating our military operations wi...
I know we discussed this as well, an Inspector General for the entire intelligence community.
It's great to have this committee and to have your leadership, thank you.
The two cornerstones of our transportation policy of course is the Surface Transportation Act as well as the reauthoriza...
We'll have to re-evaluate the Highway Trust Fund and the way in which we fund the Trust Fund.
I hope that you would take a look at this legislation that Senator Bingaman and I have introduced particularly providing...
They were supposed to be part of a national plan, a national infrastructure system and they truly have been left behind.
There are a number of issues that obviously you're going to have to address as Secretary of Transportation.
We have to develop a policy of some kind that's going to provide the incentives and the support to our communities.
If we're going to have that alternative to Taliban rule, isn't our task made much more difficult by the widespread corru...
I do hope that you will share with this committee, assuming your confirmation, what you believe the true needs are for o...
