Joe Courtney

It would be fair to categorize Mr. Putin as opportunistic.

This is this committee's chance, under new leadership, to come forward with a realistic and funded defense strategy.

We look incompetent. We look selfish. We look weak.

When our own military is begging them to--begging us to get the flexibility to do the right thing and we refuse to give it to them.

So I thought the single most powerful word in the testimony was Ms. Bensahel's word 'unconscionable.'

Article 1, Section 8 doesn't say, 'Make sure that as much defense money as is humanly possible comes into your district.'

If DOD thinks this is the best thing to do then we will be okay at Lewis-McChord.

It is our primary job to protect the country.

The fact of the matter is that this marketplace, which now has more carriers, is now providing lower rates, saving close to $90 million from last year's rates than the year before. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hultgren). The time of the…

I think it is so important to update the system.

I just think that the Reserve Component needs to be looked at as well.

I think it is inequitable that we have a young person that comes to the military and doesn't complete the 20 years and essentially walks with nothing.

Any Secretary of Defense who advises the President to engage in a ground invasion in the Middle East ought to have their head examined.

In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the President to again send a big American land Army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined, as General McArthur so delicately put it.

Good Help is Harder to Find.

If we would actually pass the minimum wage bill, there is an estimate in terms of the billions of savings for the taxpayer.

The best way to reduce food stamp expenditures is to increase employment and earnings.

A legislative response, which is really, you know, what is on the agenda here today--is a fool's errand.

I think this Committee really needs to understand, if you talk about Kaplan, if you talk about People Mart, I think Crist is one of those also.

5423 is a blunt instrument which even Mr. Dreiband's testimony acknowledged, you know, kind of sets in motion a mechanism which sweeps up a much more damaging path as far as the--what it could do to individuals, who have nothing to do with…

So, again, all I would just say is that, you know, if there are issues that, you know, you feel are still a problem out there, Ms. Clemens--I mean, frankly, you know, that is something that I think that all of us up here are more than…

Criminal background checks if not used, you know, sensibly, can have the net effect of harming or excluding people from employment who--particularly the African-American and Latinos.

As Congressman Courtney pointed out, there are obvious constitutional problems with exempting state and local governments from Title VII.

We should instead be finding opportunities to work together to bolster this nation's civil rights laws.

Instead, we are wasting valuable time with a set of misguided bills that impede the operations of the EEOC, and attempt to gut Title VII.