it sounds to me like there's a change in the philosophy of those who are serving or in the case of the Obama administration, who had more tendencies toward more that type of regulation.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, this is kind of interesting because there are so many areas here where we are in agreement.

I want to discuss an amendment, and I am not sure when it will be offered--I understand it will be offered--and I think it is very significant. First of all, let's keep in mind what this is all about. The NDAA is the National Defense…

We know that there are many countries out there that are developing missile technology and other things that we're really not always number one.

I guess I would like to have a comment from each one of you because I've heard from this Committee that there are some arguments that we're actually going to be employing more people.

Well, you know, in my State of Oklahoma we are doing this right now.

I was chairman of this Committee at the time that we went through this and, yes, it is ironic that was set up in order to make things come out cleaner, and it didn't work out that way.

I think you referred to your written testimony. Did you get more detail there?

What I'd like to have all of you do is give some thought to how the Federal Government, if we're talking about making changes, not just in this Act, but in other Acts, to try to enhance what this is all about today.

There's somehow this mentality in Washington that the government, the Federal Government, has to make these things happen.