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

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

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…

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

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

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

the unhealthy and unsanitary living conditions that they were experiencing in the privatized military housing

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

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.

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

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