Duncan Hunter

Well, before I run out of time, let me just say this. I mean what is frustrating is years ago when all this was started, when it was brought up, I think everybody probably expected that there would be cost overruns and delays.

I particularly appreciate how you included a strict timeline and metrics in the bill that will help us analyze the delivery and benefits of NextGen.

One of the things that is good about the shared governance process at universities that exists where we don't have unions representing the graduate students is that everything is on the table.

This is a contest. The European Union and others who are trying to win this contest, only by their even grosser use of bureaucracy and constraints by bureaucracy, only because they are worse than we are, we are slightly ahead, in my…

We can't. And we must act quickly to fix this problem, because the cost of inaction is simply too great.

Delays are a threat to this Nation's global competitiveness.

Monopolies shouldn't lose money, and again, I look forward to hearing from all the witnesses today.

I strongly believe that States need to know all their options as they are to assume the full costs of passenger rail routes.

Amtrak is statutorily required to break even.

My vision of Amtrak is there will be more jobs if we get it right.

I would like to think as I taught school starting out for $17,000 a year, I worked just as hard as I did when I reached the stratospheric top at $47,000.

I am trying to get a grasp on what Mr. Barletta said, how do we make sure this stops?

As the president so often reminds us, this nation suffers from a shortage of good teachers--all the more reason we should continue to support policies that allow educators certified through alternative routes to stay in the classroom.

Unless we repeal the Highly Qualified Teacher requirements, however, our neediest schools will be prevented from hiring teachers certified through alternative pathways.

I have got a very simple question. You all seem to agree that there are other routes to becoming a teacher besides the one set forth in federal policy.

Helping schools recruit, hire, and retain more effective teachers is a top priority in the Republican effort to reform elementary and secondary education law.

Thank you, Chairman Hunter, Ranking Member Kildee and members of the committee.

As a United States marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and who saw the bodies and the flag-draped caskets with dignity and respect get put into the backs of airplanes and sit off of the battlefield in those two theaters, I want to…

I am not a happy camper this morning with the status, the delays, and, again, the total ineffectiveness of putting a very important program together.

H.R.4740: Fairness for Military Homeowners Act of 2012, as introduced by Rep. Duncan Hunter (Calif.) protects serving members from being denied refinancing should they no longer reside in the premises because of a relocation caused by…

Congressman Hunter's bill is a common-sense approach that will offer reasonable relief to military homeowners which is why we encourage the Subcommittee to pass it.

There is a real necessity to try to figure out a way or a strategy that would impose conditions on Iran to ensure that it does not try to build nuclear weapons in the future.

I think that is the correct course of action, is to pursue negotiations.

Surgical strikes, I would argue, will simply not work, at least by themselves.

I personally believe that they are being deterred now from moving forward.