The Congress has the ability, as we have shown every year since I have been in the U.S. Senate... if there was a shortfall they stepped in with some type of supplemental funds.

I am in full agreement with the goals of providing VA a timely, predictable, and sufficient budget.

This waiver when granted offers an opportunity for North Carolina to save $1.4 billion over the next 5 years.

I join you in welcoming all of our guests and thank them for taking the time out of their busy schedule to travel to Washington to share with us examples of what States are doing to improve our Nation's public health.

I think in all the testimony it was a very comprehensive approach to how we solve obesity.

I want to point out for the committee members--and it gets at the heart of what I think all our panelists have said--that when we start to get ahead, all of a sudden we get knocked back.

I think it's a shocking number and I think they need to hear it.

It's absolutely crucial that funding commitment happen before we get to the end of January.

We've learned, in Washington, if it's printed in the paper, it must be fact.

Would you agree that the Navy has a statutory responsibility, here, to act as promptly as they can?

Since the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 was unanimously passed by Congress in May... it would now be prudent to review the FMTV rebuy within the guidelines of this new required process.