"But to my knowledge, there aren't any parents that serve on them; are there?"
"I think you have heard from a number of us today about our dissatisfaction with what we have heard. I can just state for myself that we are going to fix this this year."
"I was also taken by one of the comments that they will, quote, 'wait you out,' because they know you are a military family."
"We are going to have all of you come back every 3 months to give us a briefing."
"And you can all say that we are here for the families, but unless we are going to show it by action, we are not achieving that result."
"Why wouldn't you have family members serving on this advisory panel?"
"When we were visiting in the Pacific Northwest, what kept coming up were the number of families with children with autism."
"So what is your game plan to address those gaps?"
"And I would say to you, Ms. Stevens, that we could solve a lot of our problems if we just take the Marine Corps model and implement it in every one of the services."
"So we are going to change the system, so it is responsive to the families, because words don't have any weight unless they are followed up with actions."
"We actually have to look in our own house as we address this issue, because we don't fund the IDEA program at the level we are supposed to."