what is it that has to pick up that difference in trying to maintain what we have, which we would all agree is very beneficial and we feel that it is, you know, critically important to our families?

I think we all just are pretty possessive of the personnel accounts and want to be sure that those are reasonable and that it makes sense.

The FY12 National Defense Authorization Act requires the Services to treat graduates from non-traditional secondary schools...

We need to ensure we are making well-informed decisions and have an understanding of what these proposed cuts will have on the recruitment and retention of our Armed Forces as well as the impact to their families.

I understand your frustration with the system. But I have to tell you, those of who don't live in this town are even more frustrated to see that the kind of games that are going on is able to essentially paralyze an agency.

Of course the Constitution holds supreme.

I would actually also have advised the president to remain strictly within the constitutional authority.

this president has made 32 recess appointments, compared to more than a hundred recently done by past presidents.

What will happen to workers, what will happen to our system of collective bargaining if the labor board is shut down.

Ultimately, we reached a contract that protected the nurses. It protected the patients. It protected the hospitals.

I think it is wrong for three reasons. Substantively it is wrong, process-wise it is wrong. And it misses the point.