Jerry Moran

Well, thank you. My response was little more of an opening statement kind of response than I anticipated.

So roughly, are we talking 200,000 Active plus Reserve and Guard?

If you look at it mathematically--and I think in is a best-case scenario, sequestration would require us to find cuts of at least another $134 billion.

I am concerned that the executive branch over the years on a bipartisan basis really has attempted to usurp the prerogatives of the legislative branch.

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Ranking Member Bishop and your excellent staff and particularly Mr. Washington and Ms. Hammack and particularly Dr. Robyn and her staff, John Conger, who used to work for the former chair of the…

We think now that most new jobs are coming from startups, companies 5-years old and younger.

It is a privilege to be here and to hear our witnesses, and I look forward to that moment. I just wanted to highlight legislation that I and Senator Warner, also a Member of this Committee, have introduced, which is called the Startup Act…

I hope the House of Representatives will pass legislation that would require--which would compel China to stop manipulating its currency.

We now have a $295 billion trade deficit with China which was recorded last year.

I have some legislation that would have us take Federally funded research that leads to new widgets to require that the widgets be made and manufactured here in America.

We need to find ways to work, not just with the Commerce Department, but across the continuum of incentives to attract people to build plants here and to make products here.

Those products should be made here. And we should require in the licensing or the utilization of this information that we require that they be manufactured here.

Help us help you solve this problem.

I owe you every tool possible to help you meet that criteria; and the complaint or concern I have is that I am not being asked to do something to solve the problem.

I have expressed my complaint to the VA before because when the VA then implemented its pilot program, it did not choose a VISN as a pilot project.

In 2008 Congress passed the Rural Veterans Access to Care Act.

Everything I know about this topic suggests that it is otherwise. In fact, the farm organizations and commodity groups of the wide array of those who advocate across the country on behalf of agricultural producers are aligned with us in…

We cannot tolerate sequestration in the amount of--$1 trillion over the next decade in the Defense Department period.

We should be able to find ways that we can work together as a nation to help these young men and women as they transition from the service and back into our society.

I don't think anybody in the service is looking for a handout. They are looking for a hand up.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

But should the pilot have been blamed?

It is worth putting out there.

They simply changed the goalpost.

The F-35 program is not on track to meet operational effectiveness or operational stability requirements.