I am mindful of the fact, as are you, that unlike the last time this issue was considered by Congress more than 15 years...
President Obama's setting of the July 2011 date for the beginning of U.S. troop reductions in Afghanistan energized Afgh...
This policy is wrong for our national security and inconsistent with the moral foundation upon which our country was fou...
We have well over 200,000 troops deployed in harm's way right now.
I am disappointed, Secretary Gates, that you have announced that you will recommend a veto if the Defense bills include ...
I would appreciate it if you could comment on these and potentially other issues you see facing this program.
I fully support your efforts to use OCO and supplemental funding to address many operational shortfalls in Afghanistan.
I remain concerned that we are not on pace to achieve the end strength of 400,000 by 2013, as recommended by General McC...
Are you going to stay or are you going to leave like you did last time?
I would ask to be included in the record, the letters from the National Association of Manufacturers--the Nation's large...
Six hundred organizations have signed the letter.
What's the down side to waiting, say 2 months, while we can get the complete information?
the points that Senator McCain made so eloquently about crew training and standardization.
I think it's obvious that this is a rush to judgment on a program that has been plagued with billions and billions of co...
Do you agree with Mr. O'Rourke's statement that the costs of this new proposal could be $700 million less and in some ca...
But you agree there is a range?
The third time after the NDAA was done, the Navy has come in and said, 'Gee, we have it solved now and we need significa...
It takes a lot of training and a lot of skill to man one of these ships efficiently, with the latest technology and equi...
