Mark Begich

My understanding is that the New START treaty does not restrict the missile defense system in any way.

I think it's a good treaty and I'm looking forward, hopefully, to vote on this at some point.

I believe housing stock in the military is substandard in some areas and very high quality in others.

Do you think DOD had a responsibility here to pull the plug earlier?

Who was at fault for waiting so long? Half a billion dollars, to me--I don't know, maybe to DOD, is not a lot of money, but to me, it seems like a lot of money.

Unfortunately, many of these communities and organizations were reluctant to adopt the uniform processes and business rules with the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product.

If you can expand a little bit, when you talk about operational energy plans that you'll be responsible for in developing, how do you see DOD moving from where they are now, which is the largest consumer of fuel...

Alaska is ground zero, when it comes to this issue, so we understand this.

We have one-third of the gas reserves of this country, still untapped and full.

Do you agree that conditions could potentially be placed on you during the agreement, and why not just not wait for Congress, because if you wait for Congress to do something on access rules, I may be dead and gone by then.

Do you anticipate more than 50 percent of it to be recovered?

Would you allow and work to make sure the conditions are in whatever agreement without the argument that, well, Congress will do it later?

I have faith that you will go through a process.

How many of your employees currently are under union contract in Comcast, in any form, any kind of union?

Just some very quick questions, if I can? Mr. Roberts, if I can just walk through, just so I understand the magnitude. What is your current Comcast gross revenues?

It's hard to explain to taxpayers when you scrap a half-a-billion-dollar program.

The great insurance policy that Congress has--security blanket that you've placed over retention is the construction of our pay table.

If I can, I just have just a couple quick questions.

Whenever an artificiality is introduced that serves to the disadvantage, then we have to look to what change we're going to do to make that good.

I believe the private sector will move much faster than we could ever move.

Has there--have you had--I'm trying to think how to word this--for the increases or the pay that we're trying to make sure that we're competitive with, has that pay changed in the private sector because the economy has flattened?

Is the Air Force looking at how to address those shortages by bringing in more specialists?

We don't want to do anything that drives people into having pain and avoiding what's appropriate treatment.

In general, this section stated that the 'Secretary of Defense shall establish within DOD a center of excellence in the prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, and rehabilitation of military eye injuries.'

General Green, do you believe this program should be implemented across DOD and the other Services?