The public has just about had it with this continuous capitalization.

Mr. Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to present the American Legion's views on these pieces of legislation.

The number of cell phones in state and Federal facilities across the country is continuing to rise at an alarming rate.

This idea that you are too big to fail, that does not set well with me.

Now is clearly not the time to increase taxes.

That means private gains on the upside and public losses on the downside. And that is not a desirable or acceptable system.

We need to prevent speculative and highly leveraged excesses from threatening the stability of our entire national and global financial system.

We think the Pentagon needs to focus more on fixing TRICARE and less on trying to charge more for it.

I would like to thank the chairwoman for having this hearing this afternoon. It really has been very helpful to me.

It is my view that Congress can find the additional funding required to protect the men, the women, and their families who make incredible daily sacrifices in service to our Nation.

While fiscally more difficult, many of the proposals that will make an immediate and positive impact on our service members and their families fall into the latter category.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman Davis, for holding this hearing today.

I am grateful to be working with the Gold Star Wives in support of enactment of H.R. 775, which would eliminate the SBP/DIC offset.

Madam Chair, based on my review of the testimony submitted to us, the recommendations made by the various groups fall into two broad categories: one, those that are strictly policy issues that require little or no additional funding; and…

We hope that you will be able to fix a glitch in the combat-related special compensation law that causes some to lose the pay that Congress meant for them.

I appreciate you bringing up the issue of the home of record and the difficulties that can be in providing services.

I want to urge you to write letters--they can be handwritten letters, they can be e-mails--of how particular legislation, either that is pending or needs to be adjusted or regulations that need to be improved.

I am especially grateful that we will hear today from Ms. Margaret McCloud, a Gold Star Wife whose husband, Lieutenant Colonel Trane McCloud, was killed in action in Iraq.