"This hearing should afford us the opportunity to hear a variety of perspectives on medical readiness."
"Nothing that we have to tell you, medical readiness is the foundation for which the military services' medical systems are built."
"I also want to acknowledge and thank the chairman for mentioning the contribution to civilian medicine that our armed services have made."
"we also know that a number of our military providers also moonlight for training."
"I feel like we have asked the same question many different ways, but we really feel a responsibility to help and get this right."
"I am going to ask you to do something that is kind of difficult."
"Thank you for being here. I want to just very, very briefly mention, just to thank you, the department, I think they are following through on a letter that was received regarding increasing diversity ..."
"We must continue to lead in deterring Russian aggression and, if necessary, in concert with our partners--but our first priority has to be to prevent conflict."
"Thank you, Dr. King, for being here and for taking on this critical leadership position."
"I also want to welcome our witnesses, especially Admiral Bono. I believe that this is your first hearing before our subcommittee in this capacity."
"Our goal is to find the most appropriate way to reform the military healthcare benefit in order to provide the best, the most cost-effective benefit, while maintaining, of course, the appropriate leve..."