I think on any reorg authority that a requirement that said you have to show that the reorganization would save costs and save overhead would be important.

As Village Stability Operations and the Afghan Local Police Program expands we have seen increasing numbers of U.S. Special Operations Forces operating in remote and isolated areas.

We are shifting our focus and strategy to increased operations and increased presence in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

What are the U.S. strategic objectives in Afghanistan?

As we move to enable the ANSF and ALP to take the lead on combat operations in Afghanistan, how are we calculating the risk that the plan could fail?

We wish we could have had it before the President pushed through an $800 billion stimulus package that many of us believed was ill advised.

I am proud to be here with my good friend Ron Johnson.

If we are looking at that in a strategy that denotes more challenges there in the future, especially with our naval capability...

I know that part of that strategy is an increased operational capability and presence in both the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific.

I wouldn't have voted for that $800 billion stimulus package which contains almost twice what these cuts were.

Wouldn't you have agreed that that would have been a better approach?

I share your concern about the constitutional precedent that is being set here by a President seeking to violate the Constitution and appoint individuals while the United States Senate is in session.

How we take care of these people is one of the great litmus tests that people who are serving right now are going to be looking at.

I feel just as strongly about the commitment that we have made to lifetime medical care to the people who have served.

It's not predictable that there's going to be a democratic movement or a democratic result in some of these countries.

We hope that their system has evolved beyond that by now, but perhaps that does play into these situations.

It's really important to stay on an examination of those realities.

We are in a freeze, and it's being misunderstood on Guam.