Mike Garcia: “I think during any crisis the key is to make the right decisions.”

I would like to expand that and enable that on the authorizing side with HASC to get that to apply to the Reserve side.

An E-1 right now even with the 5 percent raise last year and the 4.5 percent increase in this President's budget request is still $22,000, $23,000 a year.

Mr. Speaker, once again, we are back with a second bill to undermine Washington, D.C., with an undemocratic and misguided policy. Republicans in Congress are once more acting again as a city council for D.C., overriding the choices of…

I am very concerned about the lack of, frankly, assets within the Reserve components, especially on the Air National Guard side...