What does it say about the security that people have in their pensions?

Thank you, Chairman McKeon. The President has not made the case for our military conflict in Libya. He has told us who we are against, Qadhafi, but he has not told us who we are for. Secretary Gates has told us that we know very little…

May I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The CHAIR. The gentleman from Ohio has 15 seconds remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle F of title III, add the following new section: SEC. 3__. LIMITATION ON OBLIGATION AND…

I'd like to thank our chairman and ranking member for including amendment No. 149 and my ranking member of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, Loretta Sanchez, for joining me in an important amendment. We are deeply concerned about a…

The 2005 BRAC Commission actually rejected this consolidation and it was proposed at that time for Massachusetts. In 1995, it was proposed. We should not keep moving these jobs around until we have a cost-benefit analysis. All we're asking…

This amendment is really very simple. We've had a recent election where the tide of the taxpayers has spoken where they want this House and they want Congress to start making decisions and the government to start making decisions to…

Many times we talk about the taxpayers and saving the taxpayers money, but, unfortunately, sometimes when it comes down to parochial interests we get to the point where we say it doesn't really matter what's in the best interest of the…

I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR (Ms. Foxx). The gentleman from Ohio is recognized for 5 minutes.

I would like to point out again that these are arbitrary numbers. Our troops in Europe pose an important asset for all of our operations in the protection of national security, including, as has been stated, training troops that go into…

The gentleman is correct that this is a time of deficits and concerns about spending, but he is not correct that this doesn't hurt our national security. He also states that our troops in Europe are not needed, and that is absolutely not…

I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Ohio is recognized for 5 minutes.

This amendment has been previously debated in committee and was defeated and should be defeated here. There are three reasons why this amendment should be defeated. This is a program that has had past cuts that have endangered the program…

On rollcall No. 337, I was unavoidably detained and did not vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''

I suspect you will find that the answer lies somewhere in the middle, that it is again the public/private partnership.

I thank the gentleman from California, our chairman, Mr. McKeon, for his leadership on this bill as it's moving through the House, and Ranking Member Smith. I would also like to thank all of my colleagues on the Strategic Forces…

We need to start moving away from the mindset in which we currently find ourselves which is detection and remediation.

The fact that these practices were ongoing and none of us knew, you acknowledged, is equally abhorrent.

This is abhorrent, that any patient who would enter the VA would be placed at risk.

What conditions do you believe would need to be met in order to permit further nuclear force reductions beyond New START levels or to permit reductions in U.S. hedge weapons?

The Administration has requested $564 million in military construction authority to support the recapitalization of the STRATCOM Headquarters at Offutt AFB.

I am very concerned that as we begin the deterrence review, or as we begin any review to look at further reductions, that it be done in the context of, as I was describing, the actual 'what is being deterred.'

We certainly don't want to see just unilateral reductions on the side of the United States without addressing what is that important issue of the threat of those tactical nuclear weapons.

I would like to commend Mr. Langevin on his leadership for the 111th Congress and congratulate Ms. Sanchez on selection as our new ranking member.

I want to make certain I am not walking away with a misunderstanding on that.