Secretary McHugh and General Casey, what additional military construction (MILCON) funding is needed to rehabilitate and construct Reserve centers and National Guard facilities for training and duty?

Our Air Force range system is not as flexible as it needs to be to ensure the growing number of launches that are required.

Well, we want to keep talking to you about that. Since this seems to be such an effective device, if it's ready to be funded we want to try to provide that for you.

The wisest man in the world, King Solomon, faced the problem of who a baby's parent was between two women that said the baby was theirs.

The American military leads. You are the point of the spear. You make it happen.

I will continue to protect so that you don't have the invasions there so that you can't test, train, and drop live ordnance.

The additional funds would be used for the replacement and restoration of critical infrastructure and instrumentation.

Therefore, I would like the record to reflect that that was a matter that we took care of in the defense appropriations bill for this current fiscal year.

Let me ask Dr. Gilmore. In your prepared testimony, you stated, talking about the Airborne Laser: 'The engagement was not an operational test conducted under operationally realistic conditions.'

If you are as successful as you have been, certainly in Iraq and, we hope, in Afghanistan, and now in our relations through the Pakistani Government, that they are successful, too--but if young men are led astray as to what the Koran…

Tomorrow in our Emerging Threats Subcommittee we're going to look at the comprehensive way that the military, integrating with the civilian agencies, can best project U.S. power and interests.

Just a quick comment, if you would, Admiral, about the role of Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft in Afghanistan?