you have my full support--the Air Guard, the Army Guard and the Reserves.

I fear we take significant risk in the readiness of our National Guard and Reserve.

I am concerned that the Department of Defense does not accurately account for homeland defense requirements.

We are concerned about what is the future of funding for homeland defense, homeland security.

In your remarks, you mentioned the dangers of drawing back our range of influence and power around the world.

What will DOD do to improve support and services to survivors of suicide (for the Total Force) among unit members and next of kin?

I thank the chairman and the ranking member. I rise today to urge my colleagues to support H.R. 1843, a bill that honors the life and the service of John Vincent Pangelinan Gerber. This bill would rename the ``Guam Main Post Office…

Let history note that I did not object to the unanimous consent request last year based on the commitments of my friends across the aisle. In fact, Chairman McKeon committed to including war claims in this year's defense bill, and I do…

I hope that someday my Republican counterparts will be clear about why my amendment was not made in order, and I also hope that they will provide greater explanation as to why we were promised an open rule this year but have anything but…

I would like to correct the previous speaker. There are 435 voting Members of Congress, but there are 441 Members of the United States House of Representatives. Although I represent a territory and I am not allowed to vote, I do make…

It is paramount to our national security to continue to have unimpeded access to the Pacific theater and to have better intelligence in this AOR.

I believe that more can be done to better posture us against current and emerging threats in this region.

the United States seeks to develop additional opportunities for joint and combined training in the Western Pacific that respond to the need for constant readiness of U.S. forces to carry out joint operations.

So, in other words, no definite decisions have been made, and as you said it is a work in progress.

I believe it improves readiness as well as morale and welfare when a soldier can deploy and demob from home station.

I remain concerned that even while our Services move to expanded ISR platforms, we still--we still--do not have sufficient coverage in the Pacific.

I feel that if we do not pass a defense appropriations bill with the requested fiscal year 2011 funding levels, that we will end up with even further significant shortfalls in 2012 that will negatively affect readiness without truly…

The Department of Defense has become overly dependent on the use of services contractors.