Is that the way things work?
I appreciate all of the testimony from a very wide breadth of knowledge and experience, and it has been extremely useful...
We will continue to size and shape the force through all necessary means while retaining an intrinsic value that attract...
I feel like that is the proposal that was laid out by the Chief.
Are you comfortable with that number? Is the Army comfortable with that number?
Thank you, Senator Blumenthal. Again, let me emphasize that I do not think there is any disagreement in this room about ...
I think we really need to include the breadth of knowledge in the review that is available today.
This is unacceptable. If America is about anything, it is about a value system.
I am shocked. That loss of a half a billion grows over time because of the aging workforce.
There are a lot of us in Congress in the same position.
Mr. Connolly. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you all for being here.
So, golly, gosh darn, a proposal allegedly designed to save money will cost money.
This is a bipartisan effort. This is not going to be an issue that is going to divide us along party lines at all.
So, given my brief time, Walt, it is going to cost a half a billion dollars a year to the Postal Service, hardly saving ...
My time is up, Mr. Chairman, but I just want to cite H.L. Mencken, who once said that for every human problem there is a...
Now, you also said a second problem with this, I am sure also unintended, is that we are going to have one heck of a pen...
We must show utter and complete passion for this subject. We must stamp it out.
I wish I could say everybody remembers that, but we are not cattle, and we are citizens.