It just doesn't add up. That is my concern.

I have some deep concerns. You may have a football team that is fighting and doing everything they can and you want to pat some people on the back, but if you are losing the game and you come up in the red, I just don't see any room to at…

This is the first of our oversight hearings on the Postal Service and our first hearing overall.

The U.S. Postal Service touches everyone.

Today's citizen soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines are an indispensable and operational reserve.

I am concerned about this ability to provide a continuum of medical care and attention for those who need to have their medical situation addressed.

I just wanted to raise one issue.

We are the strongest Army National Guard right now of all time, and we are making progress every day.

I don't understand how this can be the top priority for the State Adjutant General for years and still not be included somewhere in the budget.

the NIH model is not going to cut it as it relates to researcher based, as opposed to, 'Here is the problem. What do you need? Go.'

I would like to try to focus on some of the pragmatic recommendations, the challenges pragmatically with some of the recommendations that you have made.

We believe very strongly--I certainly do, and I know my colleagues do, as well--that we need to make progress.

We understand that there are opportunities to move toward what is called NextGen.

if the Governors got together... you could have a major, major impact on what we are doing.

Creating a successful deterrent to the trafficking of illegal arms and drugs is fundamental.

We must get at the root cause, and that is, the user of the drugs, and education and treatment are the sources that I keep saying that we must do.

one of the most important parts of President Calderon's effort is to deal with the justice system.

wouldn't that cut the head of the snake off?