So that is the plan for bringing it back to 2010?

I am not concerned about the process as long as I know that the uniformed military is involved in it and making decisions.

There is a rumor going around that Secretary Rumsfeld wants to combine USNORTHCOM with USSOUTHCOM.

If we are relying on the National Guard and Reserve so much in the force protection over there, what do we do to keep ourselves protected here?

Mr. Chairman, those words are golden, and those will be duly noted.

How realistic is this figure of $25 billion?

I don't think anybody sitting here wants our oversight to morph into a blank check scenario.

It's not honoring the Constitution when we relinquish our constitutional authority without requiring the specificity.

Mr. Chairman, I want to help General Schoomaker, because jihadists, as I have reported to you, are going across the Syrian border and they are killing our American men and women.

Secretary England, has the Navy performed any analysis of the current strategic conditions, force protection, and risk relative to the establishment of a second base on the Atlantic coast for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers?

I confronted him with all of those, and he was not cooperative.