John Garamendi

Thank you for your--for enlightening us and telling us about the problem so that we can move forward with a solution.

I can assure you that if he is in charge of resolving an issue, that you are going to get a satisfactory outcome.

The committee has become aware of a document produced by the Navy and the Marine Corps Public Health Center, that seems to discourage clinicians from suggesting that a patient's home could be contributing to their condition.

I want to thank the committee members for their intense interest in this matter and, equally or perhaps more important, the family members who had the courage to bring this issue to the attention of Congress.

I notice in the back of the room, some military families joining us again, and thank you for your--for enlightening us.

The committee has become aware of a document produced by the Navy and the Marine Corps Public Health Center...

If he is in charge of resolving an issue, that you are going to get a satisfactory outcome. He is--he takes it head on, and has done a wonderful job.

When a contract mandates mediation, and then that contract has loser-pay provisions in it, that would--could effectively force a soldier to pay 100 percent of their annual income to carry a housing company, a multimillion dollar housing…

As we review and prepare for the NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act], we will look specifically for that piece of it.

I want to make quite sure that the commanders and the officers responsible for the installations are given both the responsibility and the authority to solve the problem on their bases.

It is very obvious to me that the principal problem here was a lack of attention to this issue.

Thank you. Without objection, your statement and the statement of all of the witnesses will be entered into the record.

Equally disturbing is the fact that when these families reached out to their chain of command for help, instead of getting the support that they desperately needed, they received shrugs of indifference, and they were told that there is…

This committee heard from a panel of very courageous military spouses who told us of the unhealthy and unsanitary living conditions.

Thank you for enlightening us and telling us about the problem so that we can move forward with a solution.

I want to thank my colleagues for joining us here on the dais.

If the gentleman could stand by for a few seconds. I knew that he had been in the New York legislature as a leader in the assembly there. And I had some recollection of the work he did on insurance matters. If he could just talk about the…

I thank the gentleman (Mr. Cicilline). It is extremely important that we continue this fight we fought successfully for 8 years, 9 years. And here we are once again. The general public, keep in mind, Protecting Preexisting Conditions and…

I thank the gentleman (Mr. Clyburn) so very much. He has been working for those qualities and values all of his life, and I really appreciate his coming to us and bringing us the awareness of what Dr. Martin Luther King said about America…

Who decides that that wall is more important than getting Tyndall Air Force Base back up and operating, which is a key base, and STRATCOM, a key base? A fence is more important? I think not.

So would you classify a fence in El Paso as more important than getting Offutt, the home of STRATCOM, up and running?

What in the hell is the priority here? Is it to rebuild Tyndall or maybe Offutt, or is it to build 100 miles of fence?

Extraordinary set of questions, most of which are not going to be able to be answered in this setting.

I have been going back and forth on that. I have been trying to visually see how this thing works.

The Air Force's assessment does not align with the CBO's projected savings.