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It is clear that the challenge you face in implementing this provision of POMA would not exist if the Department were compliant with these requirements.

Well, thank you very much, and thank you for your long service with the National Guard.

We cannot continue to hold the debt ceiling hostage to unrelated matters.

We cannot continue to cherry-pick departments and agencies that we want to keep open.

If we could just vote on a clean continuing resolution [CR].

We have the votes to pass a clean CR.

If we don't increase the debt ceiling, the impact on our military will be unprecedented.

Our lease to utilize the transit center at Manas as part of the Northern Distribution Network is slated to end in 2014.

It is the responsibility of Congress to ensure the Defense Department has the necessary resources.

Congress has the ability but not the desire to fix sequestration.

The government shutdown was completely avoidable.

Sequestration is detrimental to our military readiness and is completely unnecessary.

Will your component take into account instances in which contractor personnel in the management headquarters workforce should be reduced because they are performing inappropriate functions?

In recent correspondence, House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Young expressed concern to Secretary Hagel that the Pentagon's planned cuts for headquarters were focused disproportionately on the civilians and the military…

As a co-chair of the House Long Range Strike Caucus, I want to know how you intend to protect funding for the NextGen bomber?

I know the Air Force has been challenged with modernization needs.

Are your component's answers to those questions regarding the size and cost of service contractors reliable, comprehensive, and well-informed?

When will that inventory be complete and how is it being used to inform the Pentagon's budget-cutting efforts?