I agree with all of you that timely, predictable, sufficient budgets are absolutely essential.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think that the plans that General Odierno has drawn up for consolidating our forces... I have great confidence in the plans that he has drawn up.

It certainly seems like something that we need to work together on, because with these huge numbers of vacancies it's certainly posing problems and risks in this area.

Do you believe that we're doing all we need to do in order to ensure that the remaining troops are secure?

I think it's a shocking number and I think they need to hear it.

This waiver when granted offers an opportunity for North Carolina to save $1.4 billion over the next 5 years.

I think the Community Care program which we'll be hearing about is a model that I'm hoping that the rest of the country will take serious note of.

One of the issues that we've done in North Carolina is to take the transfat out of the school lunches.

I join you in welcoming all of our guests and thank them for taking the time out of their busy schedule to travel to Washington to share with us examples of what States are doing to improve our Nation's public health.

I think in all the testimony it was a very comprehensive approach to how we solve obesity.

I want to point out for the committee members--and it gets at the heart of what I think all our panelists have said--that when we start to get ahead, all of a sudden we get knocked back.

We have to focus on this more aggressively.

Since the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 was unanimously passed by Congress in May... it would now be prudent to review the FMTV rebuy within the guidelines of this new required process.

A little bit of background. Currently the Department of the Navy, the primary party responsible for Camp LeJeune, for the Marine Corps, is asserting that it can determine which Federally funded and statutorily mandated scientific studies…

I show great favor towards anybody who graduated from Wake Forest, because it shows good judgment by not just the students, but the parents.

It's absolutely crucial that funding commitment happen before we get to the end of January.

We've learned, in Washington, if it's printed in the paper, it must be fact.