China's rapid development of advanced military capabilities, combined with its unclear intentions, certainly raises strategic and security concerns.

In your testimony, you say that China "questions the sustainability of the rebalance, pointing to sequestration and other looming fiscal issues."

Degraded facilities put missions at risk and delayed MILCON projects endanger the implementation of international agreements.

With obesity rates on the rise, we owe it to our children to not only provide them with fresh, healthy meals.

Without free or reduced meals, some children would go without breakfast or lunch.

We all know that it's just harder to concentrate when you are hungry.

I am pleased that today we have the opportunity to hear about innovative approaches.

Although our community has benefitted enormously from energy development, our list illustrates that the costs of maintaining infrastructure and public services have outstripped our ability to fund these necessities.

I think that even though we do not have experts watching TV wondering what we are talking about, they certainly know that they are supposed to stay away from uranium.

The point that I am making is that we hear from certain people, and certainly yourself, that it was bad before, but it is good now.

I think we need to move very slowly and cautiously and carefully and consider that we do not know everything.