I want to thank you for holding this timely hearing.

Since 2002, 61 former detainees have committed or are suspected to have committed attacks after being released from the detention camp.

It is imperative that we support our forward-deployed forces engaged in current operations but we must not overlook other important developments in the international system.

the Strategic Framework and Status of Forces Agreement symbolized a major step toward Iraq assuming full responsibility for its security.

I agree with Admiral Roughead, and appreciate his leadership in pursuing diversity throughout the Navy.

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.

I am delighted to be here to say aloha to Mary Schapiro and, of course, to your lovely family.

Without question, you have my support. But I thank you so much for what you have done already.

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.

You have really increased my confidence in SEC and in our country's financial community.

I am asking this as chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee. I have been working on what I am calling a seamless transition.