Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be authorized to meet, during the session of the Senate, to conduct a hearing entitled ``FDA User Fees: Advancing Public Health'' on July…

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Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on July 28, 2011, at 10 a.m. in room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on July 28, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Committee on…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on July 28, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. in room SD-G50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building…

How is that possible?

At this point, what's the most significant impediment to the Air Force's ability to get its SBR audit ready?

what more, if anything, can be done to ensure that DOD hires and retains the skilled workforce needed

Is it the Navy's plan to employ a time-consuming, expensive manual effort each year to maintain a clean audit opinion with the legacy financial systems?

please provide a list of those systems, especially the ones that are required to be used by OSD across DOD, that represent the most significant stumbling blocks to audit readiness and explain exactly what the plan is to overcome this…

What has the Air Force learned from the Marine Corps' success and how have those lessons been incorporated?

my sense is that DOD has, instead, been using that unique authority to hire the same types of civilians

there can be no doubt that effective financial management in the Federal Government today requires a knowledgeable and skilled workforce

can any type of budgetary consequence, for example, be useful?

I understand that when the Navy's primary ERP system is fully deployed it will only cover just over half of all obligation authority in the Navy.

what, if anything, is your office doing to either make these other systems compliant to support an audit or to replace them?

Ms. McGrath, one of the Business Transformation Agency's (BTA) largest initiatives is the DAI, an ERP system for defense agencies.