A comprehensive strategy involving the DLA, depots, the Global Logistics Support Center (GLSC), U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM), and other stakeholders being worked concurrently.

The efficiency strategy for depot maintenance is planned to have virtually no impact on parts availability.

I think the average American would be surprised and disappointed to know that the Department does not currently have fully auditable statements, and does not expect to have them until 2017.

In a time of turmoil and uncertainty around the world, we must be clear about the true effects of reduced military spending in critical readiness areas proposed under the guise of efficiencies.

Substantial savings will not be realized until the Department commits to spend only what is absolutely essential for the warfighter and critical Department functions.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for scheduling this Oversight Hearing on Disease Clusters and Environmental Health, and in particular children's health.

We should not fund additional projects that did not make the cut the first time.

I am also concerned that many efficiencies actually defer expenditures critical to our military readiness, which increases risk to our military forces and to our national security.

We need to shift the emphasis and the incentive system so people get into production sooner so they can start to make money.

We do not have good control on requirement creep.

That is where you need to come to us and say, How do we get a waiver on some of these compliance costs?

Mr. President, I rise today to bring to the Senate's attention H.R. 473. This is the HALE Scouts Act, and the House author is Congressman Dan Boren, D-Okla. I am announcing today introduction of a companion measure in the Senate, and I…

Mr. President, I rise today to bring to the Senate's attention H.R. 473. This is the HALE Scouts Act, and the House author is Congressman Dan Boren, D-Okla. I am announcing today introduction of a companion measure in the Senate, and I…

Madam President, I suggest we proceed to the vote on the joint resolution. The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 48) was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The joint resolution having been read the…

Madam President, I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The result was announced--yeas 87, nays 13, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 44…

budget pressures have pushed some in DOD to hedge towards contractor maintenance in a search for savings and efficiencies.

that would take away the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency in the regulation of greenhouse gases.

The tools in the EPA toolkit are so limited that what they do is produce highly burdensome regulations in the particular areas that EPA can work with and do nothing in other areas.