Your reference to dealing with the PTSD and the traumatic brain injury (TBI), which is so important, is something we're going to have to continue to address.

The unemployment rate across the country, the highest it has been in 15 years, and those people who have jobs are working longer and getting less for their labor.

Light rail reduces congestion, reduces our dependence on fossil fuels, and will employ 27,000 people for every billion-dollar investment.

We need to shift away from the 99 percent exquisite, service-centric platforms that are so costly.

What are the Services doing to ensure that those service men and women who are prescribed drugs with these side effects are being properly monitored?

To the Commandant, congratulations on the excellent job that you have done in al-Anbar.

To me it looks like you've made a bad bet if you have not proven something that can take its place and you're cutting it off.

Major General Rubenstein and Brigadier General Sutton, how is this different from steps being taken by the Services to monitor other service men and women?

If this budget were carried out, we would be down to one.

I remain convinced and we will discuss whether it is time to rethink the plan. JSF is too big to fail.

Tactical fighters are a paramount piece of equipment for the Air Guard to fulfill its mission.

We must do the latter to ensure the equipment this subcommittee provides, especially for dual-mission homeland defense, is in fact directed to the Guard for that very purpose.

I certainly appreciate your speaking about the need to protect the defense industrial base, because if we go down the same path that our fine ally Great Britain has gone, their industrial base was allowed to atrophy, so they can no longer…

I think that's a tragedy. I've made my point time and time again at these hearings year after year.

I think you have a way ahead with the counterinsurgency strategy.

I just think that was required in law, and the QDR, I know everybody hypes it, but if it's just a justification of what you put in the budget--I hope there will be some thinking on that.

Navy and Marine Corps carrier-based F/A-18 aircraft are providing precision strike in support of the forces on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I have some very real concerns about the intermediate term plans and, to be honest, what I see as a lack of intermediate plans.