Last year's Bipartisan Budget Act did not fix our force readiness problem. It only temporarily stopped the hemorrhaging of readiness.

I am concerned about the condition of some of the facilities in which our service men and women operate.

I assume the excess capacity analysis that you are doing now is going to be part of the European infrastructure consolidation review.

Their immediate reaction was that it was a piece of crap, but then they realized how much it improved their mission, and then they embraced it.

I am concerned that the underfunding of laboratory facilities has been a long-term trend that has resulted in degraded capabilities.

Is that also true of the Navy, Admiral Cullom?

How do we codify the goals for energy savings in a way that means that they continue, if leadership changes?

the legislation contains no mandates and it also provides no additional cost to the Federal Government.

It is a win in terms of job creation, a win in terms of saving taxpayers money and a win on the environment.

Energy efficiency is the cheapest, fastest way to deal with our energy needs.

Hopefully that will allow this to move forward along with some of the other important provisions in that bill.

What it would do is really set a national energy efficiency strategy.