Given the civilian personnel constraints first reflected in last year's budget and continued in the FY13 submission, can you certify in full accordance with 10 USC sections 129 and section 129a?

In achieving the right mix for the Total Force, how does the Department of Navy use the annual inventory of inherently governmental and commercial activities, and associated manpower mix determinations, to identify the civilian workforce…

I appreciate the Administration's continued focus on the Asia-Pacific region and that DOD intends to press forward with the buildup of Guam.

President Obama has made reducing reliance on contractors and rebalancing the workforce a major management initiative of his Administration.

I am very supportive of this, as a first step to address the inadequacies of the compacts.

The Department requested emergency relief from the Paperwork Reduction Act in order to move forward, after 4+ years of non-compliance, with the Inventory of Contracts for Services.

What if the work is found to be inherently governmental or otherwise should be performed by civilians, instead of contractors?

In FY10, the Department added 17,000 new positions as a result of insourcing contracted services.

The FY12 NDAA capped contract spending for FYs 12 and 13 at FY10 levels.

Surely the quest for efficiency is not intended to divert people from their core missions or result in them working in filthy conditions.

The GAO recently reported that DOD contributes nearly $3.3 billion to defense contractor pension plans.

The decision to pull 18 Global Hawk Block 30 aircraft out is shortsighted, in my opinion.

I am hoping you could offer more details as to the agreement that was reached, and whether there is any uncertainty regarding the future of the program in FY 13.

What processes are in place to ensure the workload associated with reductions being made in the civilian workforce is in fact ceasing, as opposed to being absorbed by other labor sources such as contractors or military personnel?

Have you worked with the Army to come up with a plan to compensate or fill the gap for the loss of the C-27J platform and if so, what is it?

When the Air Force says they are going to divest the block 30 inventory, does that mean that they are going to cut their losses with just the block 30's that haven't hit the production or will you be mothballing all block 30's in the…

I thank the gentleman very much. Section 2207 of the recently passed FY12 Defense authorization bill restricts transfer of funding from the Department of Defense to support civilian infrastructure requirements on Guam, except funding…

The cuts to infrastructure funding on Guam are simply punitive, and they fly in the face of the unified action by both the House and Senate appropriators. This Congress has uniformly stated that infrastructure improvements are needed on…

I would also like to thank my friend and colleague, Sam Farr, for introducing H.R. 1171.

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to reinforce my strong support for H.R. 1171, and I urge the Committee to continue to move this legislation forward.

I wish to thank Ranking Member Smith for his support for Guam, and I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler) for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 1540, the conference report accompanying the National…

Again I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 588, which is a bill that would rename the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. I yield back the balance of my time.

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Do land acquisition funding sources utilized by the Service tap into taxpayers' dollars?

I do not believe sequestration needs to occur.