I am proud that virtually every public safety officer in my great state of West Virginia has stood up and recognized how essential this bill...
The bottom line is that there are two fundamental approaches that can provide the same functional product to the police officer, fire fighte...
I thank you for allowing me to testify and yield back the balance of my time.
Just last week, Secretary Napolitano said that the terror threat is as high now as it has been since September 11, 2001.
I would like to thank Chairwoman Biggert for holding today's hearing and to congratulate her on this being her first hearing as the chairman...
We need to implement a new plan for solving our nation's public safety interoperable communications problem.
This effort is about saving lives. And to those who say we cannot afford this now, I say we can afford in no way not to do it.
I think it is long past time that we really do something strong about this.
We are trying to redress that situation.
we have to have a presence there.
I think you've seen or you've been hearing about our debt discussions that we've had.
I think we should get out as quickly as we possibly can.
I support the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 and the certification process defined in the law.
The Taliban insurgency is in the tens of thousands. Al Qaeda would be under 50,000 or so, 50,000 to 75,000.
I think the hardest thing that I have to understand, I know the people in West Virginia have to understand, is the greatest army that histor...
I think it's admirable.
This will require not just good leadership; it will require a change in culture at DOD.
A culture that has allowed massive waste of taxpayers' dollars has become business as usual at DOD.
