"By moving to advance appropriations, veterans' health care programs would accrue all three of these benefits."
"I have said this time and time again: veterans' benefits and services are a cost of war and must be understood and funded as such."
"I want to thank you for holding this timely hearing."
"Service and deliveries may need to be cut back in order to balance the books of the Postal Service."
"I believe our greatest challenge as we move to the future has to do with those unseen wounds, so to speak, the wounds of stress, the wounds of injury, traumatic to the brain."
"if you look at the Navy in its entirety, it's a representative mix of America's society. But if you look at the leadership, it tends to be very white male."
"If confirmed, each of you will face, without question, enormous challenges in DOD."
"If I am confirmed, what I would like to do is to make sure that the Congress and DOD see the relationship as not adversarial, but as working together toward a common goal."
"I feel that the men and women of the Pacific Command have maintained a remarkable level of stability."
"Since 2002, 61 former detainees have committed or are suspected to have committed attacks after being released from the detention camp."
"the Strategic Framework and Status of Forces Agreement symbolized a major step toward Iraq assuming full responsibility for its security."