Jack Reed

I would hope that would be the norm and that you would take that message back too.

Even at the $7.7 billion level times 20, and I am always suspicious of my math, roughly $150 billion. Your 20-year projection is $633 billion of work. So we are at a $500 billion gap between what you need you have to do and what we are…

I simply could not have a better colleague and partner in these endeavors than Senator Murkowski.

That is a tribute to Senator Cochran and the Secretary of the Navy just coincidentally.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I think my sense is that we support this on both sides, because it has a huge impact on personnel.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

We have a macro issue with the sequestration which everyone, I think, recognizes has huge and accelerating impacts on your programs.

In the bill Senator Feinstein and Senator Chambliss, chair and ranking of the Senate Intelligence Committee, sought to do that, and that failed.

Well, you have as much sensitivity to how soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen think and act than anyone in this room.

Well, again, I think the sooner you do it, not the discharge point but the point where that young man or woman is going to be presumably on Active Duty for 3 years, then become a veteran, gives you more time and actually acclimates them to…

It ought to be seamless. It ought to be mandated. Making that commitment is all about what the electronic health record is designed to do.

Shouldn't we be looking not at the transition point from active service to another service, but actually the point of induction, or basic training?

This is probably the most significant Federal initiative that the Treasury Department initiated to try to help people who were facing mortgage.

One of the things I find troubling is that part of the HAMP was actually providing some resources to the Enterprises for undertaking this...

But that effectively means that even if they do not take actions immediately, when they declare the safe area, simply to stop mechanized vehicles from Assad moving in as they do, they would physically have to control the ground either…

Our policy priority has been, I think, even back then and going forward for this year and continuing forward, is to try to build a coherent, inclusive opposition as the key strategic element in resolving the situation.

I have used two terms which I think are important: 'coherent' and 'inclusive.'

Again, I think you have to continue to plan for every contingency, and the Secretary has made that point.

What was EPA's role in assuring safe handling and storage of the chemicals at the facility in West, Texas that exploded on April 17, 2013?

I'm much more interested in a long-term solution and working together to get that done.

Enviable goal. And then it begs the question of: How are you going to measure that goal?

Student loan rates are set to double July 1, 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, at a time when prevailing rates on 15-year mortgages are 2.8 percent.

They cannot meet the maintenance of effort requirement, and they are returning money to the Department.