Steve Buyer: “I speak in reference to Amendment No. 11 that makes technical corrections regarding the Army National Guard Selective…”

“I speak in reference to Amendment No. 11 that makes technical corrections regarding the Army National Guard Selective Reserve, the Active Guard and Reserve, which are referred to as the AGR and the dual status military technicians regarding the end strengths for fiscal year 2001. Those technical corrections will be made. I would like to enter into a colloquy with the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter), chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Procurement. As co-chair of the Guard and Reserve Caucus, along with the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Taylor), the chairman of the committee, along with the ranking member and the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter) it permits the caucus to work with Members to put together their concerns regarding funding the Reserve excepts along with the Guard. They permit us to put together these packages and then deliver to their committee. We extend to our colleagues great compliments for accepting the first $250 million of the NGRE list. NGRE stands for the National Guard Reserve Equipment List. We worked very hard this year, working with the committee, to address the proportionality questions. In this amendment, we have a technical correction with regard to what came out of the full committee regarding some of the funding, whether it was $52 million that goes directly to the Air Guard or was that really meant for the Army Reserve.”