Oh, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I always appreciate that because Guam is a small place and it is not mentioned very often.

The shutdown has negatively impacted Guam's tourism economy for something that could have been avoided entirely by passing a clean CR.

We cannot continue to hold the debt ceiling hostage to unrelated matters.

We have the votes to pass a clean CR.

If we don't increase the debt ceiling, the impact on our military will be unprecedented.

If we could just vote on a clean continuing resolution [CR].

We cannot continue to cherry-pick departments and agencies that we want to keep open.

Well, thank you very much, and thank you for your long service with the National Guard.

It is clear that the challenge you face in implementing this provision of POMA would not exist if the Department were compliant with these requirements.

With the exception of the pay freeze, these are all choices the Department is guilty of making.

Sequestration is detrimental to our military readiness and is completely unnecessary.