Richard Burr

Are you finding the public receptive to that?

What do you intend to do with the land that was purchased in Washington County?

Policy changes or administrative actions that would help resolve the controversy should proceed in parallel with any current or future scientific studies.

The potential population affected is 500,000. We've tracked down 137,000.

I'm deeply concerned with some of the conclusions that the NAS review came to as it related to Camp Lejeune, and specifically the water contamination.

We must avoid, at all costs, authorizing a project that becomes the bridge to nowhere.

This budget request includes the first increment of construction totaling $378 million required to move 8,000 marines and their families from Okinawa to Guam.

This is a unique budget year, in many ways, as we consider decisions and authorizations that will have far-reaching consequences.

Not to expand, to function, has been sort of the annual Mecca to the Hill, number 1 thing that the Park Service needed.

Only one of us though, can walk away with the prize and that's the Great Smokies.

I want to tell you how anxious I am to work with you in your new capacity.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I would like to know how many were over budget.

Any concern by you or any of your colleagues here today whether the $800 million threshold can be met?

The last time I looked at the plan it was the billion dollars plus plan.

I appreciate that and I appreciate your diligence at making sure that communities get what, in fact, they deserve.

So, is the lesson to Congress that if we are looking at divvying out stimulus money that is more immediate from a standpoint of its need, we probably should not do maintenance projects?

Is determined by new times, new technologies, new demographic realities, and new commitments to today's veterans.

Court involvement does not grow the food we need in this country, and any confusion will, in fact, impact the prices.

Now, that does not mean that the conclusion of that rule will be printed in the Federal Register today.

Let me thank both of you for being here, more importantly, for your families.

But to accept that is to accept that there was an intent on the part of Members of Congress that wrote this to force the property in a family of a servicemember to all be listed in the servicemember's name.

The only mistake that we can possibly make is to do nothing and to accept the status quo as the benefit package that today's generation of warriors is going to receive for the rest of their life.

We are recognizing that there is a changing face of the modern battlefield.

All servicemembers need to be treated with the same hand.