Frank LoBiondo

This budget request undermines the Service readiness and mission effectiveness.

Our Nation owes them a great debt of gratitude.

Investing wisely and strategically to facilitate, protect, and to regulate maritime commerce in the United States remains vital in our efforts to sustain the ongoing recovery of our economy.

Rather, we should be asking a more appropriate question, which is: how can we best direct available Federal resources to generate economic growth and spur job creation?

Another issue that we have had public discussions on and some private discussions that is particularly offensive to me, and that is the parity issue, where Coast Guard men and women are, in some cases, treated differently than DOD…

This Congress must continue to make extremely difficult decisions to bring our spending under control and to cut the deficit.

I am particularly concerned with the Administration's proposal to yet again zero out funding for title 11 loan guarantees.

It is our obligation to ensure that the taxpayers get the biggest bang for the buck from the funds that we invest on their behalf.

it is really sort of a disgrace that we don't have parity, and that we will keep on this.

Would you explain, in your mind, in the policy of the Department, whether GMD is indeed a critical system to protect our national security?

the budget cuts to these systems makes it very clear to me that the Administration is willing to diminish our only system that protects--our only prudent system that protects our homeland from long-range ballistic missiles.

It is time that we stop wasting money on old, ineffective assets, and focus instead on acquiring assets that will provide the capabilities we need to continue to increase our foothold in the Arctic.

And if you can't do it, we should be able to do it as a Congress, and I expect the chairman to help us do this.

I would like to suggest in very strong terms that the Coast Guard consider either sending up legislation or taking a very strong position on this.

the F-35 continues to slide to the right. We continue to figure them in in what the Air National Guard is going to be able to do, and I think it might be a little bit of a false hope that we are going to get to any of those numbers that…

Now that the response phase is over to this particular disaster, do you have any idea, or can you tell us what research and development is being done, so that we don't find ourselves in the year 2030 and we're going to have to learn on the…

You are a workhorse. You are about getting it done, you are about getting results.

We did so because we understand the critical importance of recapitalization, the program, and we want it to succeed.

I believe I speak for all of us who are on this subcommittee when I express my sincerest and deepest condolences to the families of the victims, and my outrage at this brutal violence against American citizens.

As a result, I am extremely concerned piracy could be benefitting the terrorist groups operating in Somalia, and that these groups could use their profits to carry out terrorist acts here, at home, and abroad.

Piracy cannot be tolerated by the United States. I really think we need to re-emphasize that.

We have had enough, and if we are not going to get cooperation from other nations.

This obviously will delay delivery in the future of National Security Cutters and I think cost the taxpayers millions more money.

America does not want less with less. What America wants is an efficient and effective Federal Government.

This congress must make extremely difficult decisions in the coming months to bring our spending under control and cut the deficit.