If JPAC were resourced and funded to expand the number of detachments it could field, would you still object to deploying JPAC detachments to improve the personnel recovery process of the 80,000 World War II POW/MIAs?

Would the study provide a basis for decisions related to increasing identifications three-, four-, or five-fold?

To what extent should your budget be protected from budget cuts in the year of execution?

To what degree is the Hawaii location of the Central Identification Lab contributing to your difficulties in recruiting and retaining qualified specialists like anthropologists?

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.

I want to reiterate my appreciation for your military service, your extraordinary diplomatic service and wish you well on your return to the State Department.

Thank you, Chairwoman Davis. And, indeed, I appreciate your efforts that nobody is going to be cut short.

We look forward to hearing your testimony and working with you to fulfill our commitment to our American heroes who are missing in action or prisoners of war.

I believe we must make changes in the personnel accounting system that will dramatically increase the number of annual identifications by a factor of three to five.

It is high time that that be done, and I am very thankful that we had rural broadband in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The one lesson we should draw is the United States did indeed recover from the Great Depression, and we will indeed recover from today's recession.

This report indicates the rural economy and I quote, 'is now losing jobs at a faster rate than the rest of the nation.'

We realized that folks that live in rural areas are just as much taxpaying citizens as people that live in urban and suburban areas.

What lessons can Congress learn from the New Deal that can help drive our economy today?

We cannot draw lessons from every aspect of the Great Depression or from FDR's response.

Until recently, there was not much debate on whether the New Deal helped or hurt efforts to recover.

Fiscal monetary stimulus may provide broader support for the economy than monetary policy alone.

only with the New Deal's rehabilitation of the financial system in 1933-35 did the economy begin its slow emergence from the Great Depression.