Sam Farr

I plan to offer legislation to give OEC greater prominence.

Although Congress, I think, asked for it.

But you are not doing it. Here is what you did. You have gotten radios out there for the rural fire departments. They can't talk to each other.

Has that statistic changed now? Does the Mexican border have more?

But knowing that, from a risk management standpoint, are we providing the same kind of detection and detail to the Canadian border as we are to the Mexican border?

I really question why that didn't become a major disaster, and perhaps you can come to my office and we can talk more about it.

And that criteria is a narrow call, and it seems to me--I really appreciate the response on the ice storms, but we had fire, just the opposite, heat this summer in California.

I am a proud lifelong member of the NAACP, and today, I join my colleagues in celebrating this 100th anniversary. I am especially proud of my local moderate county branch of the NAACP where our chapter was created in 1932, and I believe…

I would just encourage you to use whatever options you have available to get that land transferred.

Congress is synonymous with BRAC for me.

Some pending legislation will, I think, allow the Secretary of the Navy to transfer those facilities to the VA.

It is very interesting to hear this. I am keenly interested in this jointness and then when you get into how it is managed and paid for, it isn't as joint.

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.

Where deadlines are concerned on legacy bases, the Army never met any of them.

People want to be there. There are a lot of people that are holding ashes in their home waiting for this cemetery to be built.

It is the largest in history and I think it is having some beneficial effect.

Has the Army finalized its cleanup protocols with BLM on how the BLM land is to be cleaned?

We still have over 6,000 uniformed personnel on the Monterey peninsula.

The Congress can take the blame. They asked for $150 million, and we gave them $10 million.

The House of Representatives has created--I guess it is a relatively new committee. It is called the House Democracy Assistance Commission.

Thank you for your service.

But we need some interoperability.

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

We need to do that with veterans. I mean, we are all so insular, and we can look at all these other resources that governments have, whether they are federal, state or local, but we have got that kind of data now.

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.