I assure you, I am going to be looking at this and taking you and the chairman at your word that we will have the opportunity to get your input so that, if we need modifications, w...
I do not know how we could proceed without giving the stakeholders an opportunity to be heard in this committee, including organized labor.
I want to repeat what I said earlier today, and that is, we just got the bill today.
I take it from your response this morning that you are willing to sit down and work with us in that regard.
Organized labor deserves an opportunity to be able to comment publicly before this committee on the provisions that are in this bill, and I ...
I would just urge you to consider a public hearing before we mark up, and particularly to give non-governmental stakeholders an opportunity ...
At the very minimum, there needs to be a public hearing when we have the text of the legislation.
I do think we need to know the impact it has on U.S. readiness.
The needs today are greater, and the resources are less.
This country has been, a leader worldwide in promoting the right values.
When I first came to the U.S. Congress in 1987, we could not pass a foreign aid bill.