Rodney Frelinghuysen: “While I recognize the gentleman's concerns that the wounded warrior care program is effectively and efficiently…”

“While I recognize the gentleman's concerns that the wounded warrior care program is effectively and efficiently monitored--and perhaps an outside group taking a look at it would not be a bad idea in and of itself--but removing $20 million from the aircraft procurement account, specifically that Navy account for Growlers, is excessive to fund a study that is really unrelated to the purpose of that aircraft. There are better ways to fund studies. We can request the Government Accountability Office--and our committee would be happy to do that--to do a study, one that will certainly cost less than $20 million. Additionally, the loss of funding for the Growler program will result in the loss of an airframe which is critical for the Nation's airborne electronic attack mission. We probably need more of these Growlers, rather than less. So I would be happy to work with the gentleman on finding another source for an outside study, and I would be happy to yield to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Visclosky), the ranking member, for any comments that he may care to make.”