I would like to echo her suggestion and her strong urging to Treasury that you be aggressive in doing what you can.

There is a desire that boots on the ground in the Middle East should not be United States boots.

My hope is that there will be a compromise that will achieve sequester relief for both sides, both segments, because national security is more than just defense.

Thank you very much for your very strong statement about Congress's responsibility to govern through compromise.

I agree with you there. Perhaps one of the areas of the world where we do have what I would consider a strategy is in the Asia-Pacific area with the Indo-Asia-Pacific rebalance.

Thank you very much because this, as in so many other areas, requires a lot of collaboration at all levels including, as you say, the citizens, citizen scientists.

I emphasize how important it is to have an acquisition team that we can rely upon.

this agreement may create the space for us to have a--more than a conversation, but one that would lead to some kind of a change in behavior on the part of these state actors.

Because we know that exposure to the environment, especially after 9/11 and what happened to the 9/11 first responders, all kinds of health issues that arose.

It seems as though if there is no presumption, then it is a pretty high burden for the individual veteran to make the connection claim.

I realize that it is very challenging to determine the causal effect of exposure to a substance and subsequent health of concerns.