Sam Farr

I arrived with a base closure at Fort Ord, 28,000 acres, probably the largest base ever closed.

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

So what we have tried to do, in the meantime, Veterans opened a clinic. It has been so successful it is cracking at its seams.

Thank you for your presentation. And thank you all for your service to our country.

It just seems to me that now that we are going to build a new facility, that it just makes really good sense, this is right in your footprint, to serve the families of the active duty members who now have to truck over to Salinas.

I am very interested in seeing what we can do to, perhaps, make that a better decision making process.

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

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

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

No, wait a minute. State legislation passed it, saying that they have to put the money up into an account with the state before they will exercise it.

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

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