It is the responsibility of Congress to ensure the Defense Department has the necessary resources.

Our lease to utilize the transit center at Manas as part of the Northern Distribution Network is slated to end in 2014.

The government shutdown was completely avoidable.

Congress has the ability but not the desire to fix sequestration.

Are non-civilian personnel involved in making recommendations for reductions in total headquarters budgets? If so, how have the inevitable conflicts of interests been addressed?

The Army's historic leadership on the inventory of contract services does the Army great credit.

Both the Congress and the Administration have identified instances in which contractor personnel are inappropriately performing functions that are inherently governmental.

To what extent in FY12 did the Army over-execute spending on service contracts and under-execute spending on civilian personnel?

I am concerned that our commitment may appear to be nothing more than rhetoric to our allies in the region.

How can we achieve greater transparency over service contract costs so that we can impose and actually enforce caps and cuts in service contract spending?

Will the Army continue to use BMM consistent with the commitments Secretary McHugh made in his correspondence?