We'll work with you.

I understand that. But for 100 years in this country, from the creation of the FDA after Upton Sinclair's book, we have worked hard to protect public health and protect food safety and pharmaceutical and drug safety.

I think your idea is a good one there, and we will pursue that.

I agree with that also. I am a strong proponent of women in combat, providing they fit the qualifications.

The government's role has increased, so has its inability to handle the basic functions such as making proper payments.

I have concerns about if we are having all this fraud, waste and abuse now, what happens if the President's health care plan stays in effect.

Yet, the first thing that I think we should do, quite frankly, is fix this stuff.

I feel that the Guard and Reserves are getting the short end of the stick.

It is deeply, deeply concerning to me.

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I do not know how else to say it. We will make sure we play a very active role.

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But if you shift some of the Active components to some of the Reserve bases like has been done in the past, you are going to get that good value for the dollar and also stretching out the mission.

I want to commend him for that.

I just do not understand when we are giving away money, hard-earned taxpayer money, when we are cutting military by a half a trillion dollars potentially.

Yet, we are talking about billions, and we cannot seem to get our handle on it.

It makes absolutely no sense to me.

I am concerned about the role of the Guard and Reserve. In particular, I am concerned about the sequestration cuts and how that is going to affect our military preparedness.

The Guard and Reserve's more active role in the President's new national security plan is evident.

The unexplained physiological incidents which caused the Air Force to stop flying for nearly 6 months.

I want to commend you for taking the necessary steps to find the cause of this very serious problem.

The reduction in end strength will not only impact the availability of soldiers, it is going to affect the Army's equipping plan.

The F-22 Raptor, while capable when it does fly, costs about $1 billion each year just to operate.

impact of personnel reductions on strategy and readiness

I want to make sure we can touch on that a little bit.