Madeleine Bordallo
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Madeleine Bordallo is a Democratic politician who served as the Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Guam from 2003 to 2019. During her tenure, she focused on issues such as military affairs, education, and health care, advocating for the interests of Guam and its residents. Bordallo was the first woman to represent Guam in Congress, and she played a significant role in promoting the island's economic development and environmental protection initiatives. She was known for her commitment to improving the quality of life for the people of Guam and worked to secure federal funding for various local projects.
Well, thank you very much, and thank you for your long service with the National Guard.
Sequestration is detrimental to our military readiness and is completely unnecessary.
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.
I want to know that we will begin to see tangible actions that support our statements emphasizing our support 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?
I am concerned that our commitment may appear to be nothing more than rhetoric to our allies in the region.
Will your component take into account instances in which contractor personnel in the management headquarters workforce should be reduced because they are performing inappropriate functions?
I supported an Andrews amendment to the FY14 NDAA at the House markup to extend a cap on service contracting by two additional years.
In recent correspondence, House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Young expressed concern to Secretary Hagel that the Pentagon's planned cuts for headquarters were focused disproportionately on the civilians and the military…
The OSD Organizational Review is intended to achieve a 20% cut in total headquarters budgets.
As a co-chair of the House Long Range Strike Caucus, I want to know how you intend to protect funding for the NextGen bomber?
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?
Both the Congress and the Administration have identified instances in which contractor personnel are inappropriately performing functions that are inherently governmental.
The Army's historic leadership on the inventory of contract services does the Army great credit.
Are your component's answers to those questions regarding the size and cost of service contractors reliable, comprehensive, and well-informed?
Will the Army continue to use BMM consistent with the commitments Secretary McHugh made in his correspondence?
To what extent will your component generate savings in management headquarters workforce spending through insourcing, consistent with 10 USC 2463?
When will that inventory be complete and how is it being used to inform the Pentagon's budget-cutting efforts?
What assurance can you provide that the headquarters cuts and cuts generally undertaken by the Department will take into account contractors as well as civilians and military?





