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

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

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

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

The government shutdown was completely avoidable.

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

Are non-civilian personnel involved in making recommendations for reductions in total headquarters budgets? If so, how have the inevitable conflicts of interests been addressed?

Both the Congress and the Administration have identified instances in which contractor personnel are inappropriately performing functions that are inherently governmental.

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

I want to know that we will begin to see tangible actions that support our statements emphasizing our support in the region.

I supported an Andrews amendment to the FY14 NDAA at the House markup to extend a cap on service contracting by two additional years.

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…

The OSD Organizational Review is intended to achieve a 20% cut in total headquarters budgets.

That doesn't make any sense.

To what extent will your component generate savings in management headquarters workforce spending through insourcing, consistent with 10 USC 2463?

How can we achieve greater transparency over service contract costs so that we can impose and actually enforce caps and cuts in service contract spending?

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?

The Army's historic leadership on the inventory of contract services does the Army great credit.