Sam Farr

I have been fighting this for 15 years.

Well, that is the question. Is it----

We want to try to get this thing moving.

And our strategy for achieving stability around the world is to develop these partnerships and building partnership capacity.

The problem is that providers don't want to take that rate because it is too low or the process is too much of a hassle.

We are not doing that?

I am very keenly interested in emphasis on soft power. I think it is the right thing to do, and I think America can do it well.

Well, I think the lesson learned here that is really some advice to both of you, because veterans are everywhere that there are active duty military.

CCMR can be very helpful to the work of HDAC but CCMR needs to get reimbursed.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.