the soldiers need to get the service equal to the service that they have provided to this country.
Are we trying to do a better job of actually helping our guardsmen really know what jobs are back in their own communities?
I am introducing legislation actually right now, focused on this whole issue of employment for all of our service members.
We in the State of Washington are very interested in adding a Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) to the ANG.
I find this large increase to be disturbing and want to know more about what is being done upon the servicemember's return.
We have to, I believe, work really hard to help them assimilate back into the civilian world and be productive members in our workforce.
It is really disheartening to hear the stories from our National Guard members who are coming home from deployment into a poor economy and j...
We have to keep people in the Guard and Reserves. And if they go home and can't find a job, they are going to abandon us.
Let us be clear: The Republicans hate defined benefit pensions, whether it is Social Security at the Federal level or it is a public pension...
Unions built this country. They built the highways, the ports, the schools. They created fairness, the 8-hour work day, safe working conditi...
Let's take away their pensions. Let's destroy the system we have developed in this country.
If you could make an investment of $1 that could result in 26,000 deaths--premature deaths in the United States, and would return economic b...
The only comprehensive assessment of the cost benefit analysis is the one presented by the EPA.
I think that is a huge mistake. It is like eating your seed corn.
I am serious about this.
The goal of this legislation is to help the tribe move all of its tribal facilities out of the tsunami zone.
This land trade with the Department of the Interior will allow you to relocate to that higher ground.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank you and Vice Chairman Barrasso for holding this important hearing.
