Sam Farr

We need to plus up our education, the relevancy of education, and the training to go with it.

We can not win the peace until we learn to cross the cultural divide.

I would really appreciate it if you could put in a good word--this clinic is really cost effective.

There is no military solution. It has got to be a civilian solution, and we need to work on diplomacy.

In this master plan, do you have to adjust anything for force protection requirements?

If you could work with the Defense Appropriations Committee on ensuring that DOD is implementing all of those and working in cooperation with the V.A., because there has been some problems.

No matter what the merits are to this project, you can't get over the 70-mile rule.

I would love to try to change all the law, but it is probably going to be easier to get this thing built this way.

It is really more--it is only 70 miles as the crow flies, not as one drives.

I have been fighting this for 15 years.

Well, keep pushing, because it isn't going to happen without you.

I would also like to thank Ranking Member Wamp for his service on the committee.

It makes a lot of sense to be built right in the footprint of where the Army community is.

We believe so strongly in the quality of life and talk about it in this committee.

There ought to be some way of giving some financial aid for that housing cost.

I just visited your cemetery in Manila. I was just overwhelmed.

I want to thank Chairman Edwards for his leadership and for holding this hearing.

I thought it was going to be used as an air base, but it is a housing base. And it is very difficult but I share their concerns.

In the comprehensive strategy that you are urging, is there another modality, another disease where we do have that comprehensive strategy?

There is strong opposition to TRICARE fee increases from military retirees and there are other cost-saving options which must be implemented.

Part of my frustration with this BRAC process is its incredible slowness.

I am trying to solve Mr. Bishop's problem.

My base closed 18 years ago. It still is not cleaned up.

When the service pulls out, it is the responsibility of the local government to create a reuse plan, not the Navy to tell the locals how to use it.

The purpose of this property is to do economic development, is it not?