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

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

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

General Green, I understand the Air Force implemented the Family Health Initiative (FHI)...

I understand the Army has instituted a number of programs to address the increasing suicide rates among servicemembers.

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

In the healthcare reform bill that the President signed yesterday, we have within there a task force...

I'm also very pleased to see that there is kind of a reexamination.

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

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

I'm going to be very interested as we move through this over the next several months.

I have introduced a piece of legislation to set up a task force for Alaska to bring all the different agencies that deal with healthcare and TRICARE.

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.

It's probably the highest percentage, I would bet, or per capita, in the country.

We would love to see confirmations happen very rapidly, but don't wait for that. Move forward on progress.

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?

I think this is an important issue.

I would ask you to provide me, if you can at some point, some of the data that shows that...

Make the rules as we go, is my rule.

We are the tip of the iceberg of what's going to happen in this country, very rapidly.

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.'

there is no better producer of jobs than the focus of what you do every day in the different departments

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I got a little nervous, to be very frank with you, because in rural states, sometimes just getting--you know, I can't put multimodal in Kotzebue, Alaska.