Roland Burris

This legislation would direct the Secretary of the Interior to perform a Special Resource Study to evaluate the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of the New Philadelphia site.

This legislation would direct the Secretary of Interior to perform a special resource study to evaluate the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of the New Philadelphia site, southeast of Springfield, Illinois, to be managed…

Is the IOC of the F-35 for the Marine Corps going to have to be delayed as well?

Secretary Carter and General Moore, if the delay is 24 months, what is the plan to recapitalize the current F-18 and AV-8B aircraft fleet for the Marine Corps?

Programs such as JSF provide an example of how the Department of Defense (DOD) is not being a good steward of the taxpayers' money.

A new availability and service paradigm--referred to here as a continuum of service (COS)--that provides individual servicemembers greater flexibility

Diversity in thought, in perspective, and in experience is and will remain critical for success in conflict prevention and on the battlefield.

I share your concern in ensuring our military, in particular the National Guard, has representation in our senior ranks that reflects the diversity of the population we serve.

How will a moratorium on Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) affect the pending cases of servicemembers facing discharge?

Dr. Stanley, now that the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System (DIMHRS) is being canceled by the Secretary of Defense, what is the plan to look at other options to manage personnel and pay under a single system for the DOD?

If the supplemental is being replaced by the OCO request, then why is there such a large disparity?

I put an amendment on this bill to say that we should. I filed amendment No. 3388 which addresses currently underfunding the costs of tracking and reporting the stimulus money. This measure would set aside up to one half of 1 percent of…

I believe every single man and woman who puts on a military uniform is equally deserving of our thanks and our respect, and that when we dismiss the sacrifices made by those with a different sexual orientation, we undermine the strength of…

Every time a veteran commits suicide in our country, the VA has failed in its responsibilities.

It is the charge of VA, and this Committee, to continue working until no veteran falls through the cracks.

Suicide rates continue to climb, and suicide now claims more lives from our Armed Forces than war efforts in the Middle East.

Senator Burris has lent his support to our effort by requesting an appropriation for fiscal year 2011 of $4,974,000 from the EPA's State and Tribal Assistance Grant program.

You all could make a study by using Illinois because there are quite a few small communities where we have built in the last 20 years, they built 20 new prisons in Illinois.

Where does that prisoner actually have a home and where is that person going back to, and it will be a drain on that community as opposed to leaving Centralia and coming back to Chicago.

I think that adjustments could be made, even in this cycle.

Well, certainly there is going to be some work in keeping records on it, but that person comes out of that jurisdiction, he is not going back to that jurisdiction, because the census is only done every 10 years.

But when that prisoner is counted, Mr. Groves, it is added to that community.

We in Illinois in our General Assembly have introduced legislation that states that the census would readjust the count for incarcerated persons back to their residence, not in the areas where the facility is.

Mr. Chairman, in the urban communities or the suburban communities, door-to-door sometimes works.

I just think what Dr. Groves just said, that we should get that on tape and make a commercial out of it. That was a hell of a commercial that you just made for the people to fill out the census.