Madeleine Bordallo: “President Obama has made reducing reliance on contractors and rebalancing the workforce a major management initiative of…”

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You always make my day.

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 have long stated that just as important as it is to provide our service members with new, modernized equipment, we must fully maintain the assets that we already have.

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.