I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle D of title V, add the following new section: SEC. 5__. DISCHARGE OR DISMISSAL, AND…

No, I will not yield to the gentleman. Here is the most important thing: The gentleman says that these troops need to be reduced. We've reduced troops. Mind you, the gentleman served in the early seventies. Here is 1989. We had 213,000…

Let's be clear. It has been misstated that if this amendment doesn't pass that we would leave nuclear weapons at the Cold War level. Our nuclear weapons have already been reduced by 90 percent since the peak of the Cold War and 75 percent…

Last year I stood here on the House floor and I asked the President of the United States to make available to us, to Congress and the American public, the details of what I believe is, and many have seen is, a secret deal that the…

I want to thank Chairman McKeon and Ranking Member Adam Smith for their efforts. They had given to Representative Tsongas and myself the task of doing a bipartisan package to address the issue of sexual assault in the military. We all know…

This amendment is unlike anything that you're going to see in the National Defense Authorization Act. That's because this is not a function of Congress. This amendment says the President shall end the permanent basing of the 2nd Cavalry…

Do I have the right to close, Mr. Chairman? The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California has the right to close.

I appreciate the concern that I have heard from the other side of the aisle. The issue, I think, comes down to being in a military uniform should not be a get-out-of-jail-free card. Basically the state of the law is that if you're in a…

We include mandatory minimums that say if you commit a sexual assault, you are out of the military, you will be dishonorably discharged, and if you are a trainer and you enter into a trainer-trainee relationship that is inappropriate, you…

About 5 years ago in my community, we were saddened to hear of the news of the tragic death of Marie Lauterbach. Marie Lauterbach was a marine who came forward to report the sexual assault that she had endured and came forward and reported…

I am here today to speak in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act, and I am very privileged to serve as the chairman of the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee. I first want to begin by thanking Chairman McKeon and Ranking…

Thank you for your dedication to the details of this issue and for your understanding about the personal impacts and the fact that our government shouldn't work this way, that this is an injustice that no one should have to withstand.

If you look at the issue of the health care tax credit that they currently have been utilizing, it is expiring.

we are dedicated to the issue of trying to do investigations to right injustices

we should issue subpoenas since the Administration has not been forthcoming

were it not for the Delphi salaried retirees standing up against the injustice which they faced, organizing themselves in a great structure and filing suit, pursuing the judicial process through this and working as a partner with us, we…

What does the math say, and what laws apply.

Thank you. Mr. Fink, I hope you understand the irony of taxpayers who hear you saying that you can only account for 90 percent of the expenditures but they could never stand in front of you and be able to do that.

Well, I want to take this issue up because certainly, I've seen on the local level how it makes a difference, and we certainly need to do it on the Federal level because I'm certain across all Federal agencies there have to be these slush…

One thing that struck me in looking at this review of this conference is what I call a budgetary slush fund trick.

I'm concerned in seeing this that this must happen across the board in the Federal level, and there's probably hundreds of millions of dollars that could be recaptured if we recaptured vacant position funding.

the Secretary of the Navy will submit, along with the Secretary of the Air Force, a report to Congress declaring IOC dates for all three variants of the Joint Strike Fighter by June 1, 2013.

It is literally ``lights out'' at our military bases. Next to me is a photo that ran the other weekend in my hometown newspaper, which shows darkened hallways at the largest Air Force base in the world, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base…

The Administration came and cancelled the third site in Europe, significantly reduced the site in Alaska...

But now we have it the threat has been quicker to emerge, North Korea actually threatening the United States, and you have cancelled the fourth phase of the phased adaptive approach, and you are opposing the east coast missile defense…