Madeleine Bordallo: “I want to add, too, that I join the chairman in requesting a time line. We just haven't had anything.”

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I hope you don't extract this from my 5 minutes, but there is a native of Guam in the audience today, and I am very proud of her.

I am concerned that in a year where readiness has been cited as the Department's top priority, the Department's budget request falls well short of meeting the total depot maintenance requirement for the Army and the Marine Corps.

I think it is fair to ask if the Army is, in fact, just creating more overhead that will further slow an already cumbersome process.

The cost of electricity for Puerto Rico residents is nearly twice the national average, while at the same time their GDP per capita and median household income are just half that of the mainland United States.