what effect will this have on those E-1s on the lower end of the pay scale with respect to getting the last of our military personnel off of food stamps, or will we backslide and be putting personnel back on food stamps?

what time line are we looking at for OSD's desired bureaucratic reforms to actually have an impact on the battlefield for our warfighters?

I continue to be troubled by your Service's push to lease 100 KC-767 tankers under terms that are clearly a disservice to the taxpayers of this country.

I was surprised to learn that the Navy has elected not to include the Cockpit Air Bag System (CABS)...

I have two concerns here. First, today's Navy routinely operates in littoral waters increasingly populated by a very capable diesel submarine threat, yet we are doing away with a class of ships designed to counter that threat.

General Shinseki, I noted that the Army intends to invest nearly $700 million over the next 6 years to modernize key training ranges.

my staff was recently briefed on the implementation of the Call to Service Plan, which Senator Bayh and I were successful in including in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003.

I am looking at the pay tables here. In 2000, the law prescribed military pay raises to be ECI plus 0.5 percent.

The sustained increases in defense spending we have made over the past 3 or 4 years are, I think, making real strong progress.

We're also told that the administration is considering a wide array of far reaching proposals that would change the way the Department of Defense operates and the role of Congress in overseeing these operations.

The premature declaration that we've already shared all useful intelligence makes us seem excessively eager to bring inspections to a close.

We will begin fielding components of a national missile defense this year.

If there is any chance of disarming Saddam Hussein without war, it is for the United Nations to speak with one voice.

I have unhesitatingly given my support to this courageous President throughout this controversy for many months.

The fiscal year 2004 request of $379.9 billion represents a $15.3 billion increase over the fiscal year 2003 level.

Funding for Navy shipbuilding is increasing, not as much as we wish, but clearly the curve is headed up.

Another way to support the inspectors is to back up their request for U-2 surveillance planes with a U.N. resolution.

I was astonished to read on Tuesday that State Department spokesman Richard Boucher characterized what appeared to be an agreement to implement U-2 flights as, 'nothing worth getting excited about.'