I fear we take significant risk in the readiness of our National Guard and Reserve.

We are concerned about what is the future of funding for homeland defense, homeland security.

We must always have a ready, a reliable and an accessible Reserve Component.

I also remain seriously concerned about aviation assets to our National Guard.

In your remarks, you mentioned the dangers of drawing back our range of influence and power around the world.

What will DOD do to improve support and services to survivors of suicide (for the Total Force) among unit members and next of kin?

I thank the chairman and the ranking member. I rise today to urge my colleagues to support H.R. 1843, a bill that honors the life and the service of John Vincent Pangelinan Gerber. This bill would rename the ``Guam Main Post Office…

Let history note that I did not object to the unanimous consent request last year based on the commitments of my friends across the aisle. In fact, Chairman McKeon committed to including war claims in this year's defense bill, and I do…

I hope that someday my Republican counterparts will be clear about why my amendment was not made in order, and I also hope that they will provide greater explanation as to why we were promised an open rule this year but have anything but…

I would like to correct the previous speaker. There are 435 voting Members of Congress, but there are 441 Members of the United States House of Representatives. Although I represent a territory and I am not allowed to vote, I do make…

With your support for this plan, the Army will meet near-term BOG: Dwell goals of 1:2 AC and 1:4 RC starting in FY 12.

I stressed that assuming risk is expected in any budget, especially in our operation and maintenance budgets.

I remain concerned that even while our Services move to expanded ISR platforms, we still--we still--do not have sufficient coverage in the Pacific.

What are each of the services top 3 unfunded requirements associated with ensuring a ready force, both in the near-term and in the out-years?

a continuing resolution for the Department of Defense will only cost us more money and will certainly be very serious to our security in the future.

I hope that our witnesses today can contextualize their remarks with these strategic documents as guides.

I believe it improves readiness as well as morale and welfare when a soldier can deploy and demob from home station.

I am concerned that there is an over-focus of those assets in the CENTCOM AOR to the detriment of other AOR's like the Pacific.