Joe Courtney

Section 1707 of the Space Force proposal asks for authority to involuntarily assign military and civilian personnel to the Space Force.

Congratulations on your service and leaving on your own terms, which is the best way to end your chapter.

I think really let's just move forward, and I am glad to hear your answer this morning.

Hopefully we will move swiftly and make a choice because again, this is an issue that can't wait.

The President has declared war again on the Affordable Care Act but again, our mission is just to keep again using the best information possible because health care is such a dynamic issue

When we passed patient protections with the Affordable Care Act in 2009, again it was this committee that really crafted the language regarding preexisting conditions, lifetime limits, essential benefits which again removed the ERISA…

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, and thank you for your leadership on this issue which is definitely sweeping the country.

During the shutdown, there was this view that, you know, again, this was not part of the DOD fabric, and obviously what they are doing out there really rebuts that narrative.

I would like to just change the subject for a minute to talk about, recently, the Coast Guard actually was part of a deployment in the Straits of Taiwan.

The fact of the matter is the ship is really a 2023 ship.

I call the meeting to order.

They, as far as I am concerned, completely abdicated on what everybody realizes must happen if we are going to move forward with a budget.

I think it is a pretty safe bet that the top line for defense is going to come down when the two chambers actually do what should have been done over the last 3 months.

I would just say, you almost get whiplash around here trying to sort of follow the back-and-forth coming out of the Department.

It actually was $10.4 billion. And, actually, $2.3 billion came from the Army.

Again, that really doesn't add up to a very good business case in terms of, you know, the very tough decisions that we are going to have to make.

It just seems, to me, really premature for the Department to, again, come forward with a decommissioning or mothballing of the Truman.

Mr. Courtney, if you could just yield for a second.

I just wanted to cover an issue which again, it has been another sort of topic over the last two or three Congresses for this subcommittee, which is that Air Mobility Command recently acknowledged safety issues associated with the legacy…

Does the Air Force to consider the NP-2000 upgrade a safety upgrade or an efficiency upgrade?

Well, I want to thank both the witnesses and, again, working with us on the floor votes.

Congresswoman Shalala is very excited about this bill, obviously, so--

I think that would, hopefully, be the case.

This morning, myself along with a lot of my colleagues on this committee are reintroducing the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Bill.

Hopefully, this is going to be the year that the 116th Congress reauthorizes the Higher Ed.