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I respectfully but forcefully disagree with the assertion... that he has usurped an extraordinary amount of authority within the executive branch.

It is imperative within our constitutional system that we not allow too much authority to be accumulated in one person

The President's preference to work with Congress and that, wherever possible, he would like to get Congress to agree with him, to pass legislation that he would like.

I appreciate the support you expressed earlier for the Smarter Sentencing Act.

I would like to express my concern about the Department's refusal to fully enforce the Controlled Substances Act.

But they have not misused or abused that.

The illegal and selective leaks last summer were hardly the best way to start this debate.

To be clear, is it your position that the collection of metadata under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act is legal?

Changes should not be measured on how much money they save, but instead, the true measure of any change should be whether it improves the way we recruit and/or retain a world-class uniformed force.

Avoiding difficult choices, in the name of serving our people or for any other reason, would ultimately risk a future in which our men and women could be sent in to harm's way with less than what they need to accomplish the mission.

Though well less than half of all military servicemembers will be eligible for this benefit, it is still an important tool for recruitment and retention efforts.

How important are retirement pensions for recruitment efforts and for retention efforts separately?

Thank you. Mr. McGOVERN. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin), the ranking member on the Committee on Ways and Means. {time} 1300 (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. Carson, the National Guard played a key and essential role in the conflicts of the past decade.

The enduring priority of the Army is to preserve the high-quality All-Volunteer Force.

These, in other words, create effectively poverty traps in which people feel compelled not to do that which might be for their long--inure to their long-term benefit, but in the short term they might face penalties.

I am pleased to say that Salt Lake City and the surrounding area in my home State of Utah out-performed every other major metropolitan region in the country in that regard in this important metric.

There is some consensus that our federal welfare system is clunky and poorly designed, uncoordinated phase-outs of means tested programs where individuals with modest incomes may see astronomical effective marginal tax rates are part of…