Joe Wilson

I have met with Evo Morales on different occasions, once right here in this building in my office, once in Bolivia.

I would like to know the rationale behind adequately funding the canyon, then slashing both its waste stream and recipient.

Concerns have been brought to me that the tanks will not have adequate funding to receive the waste streams.

I believe the increase is fully justified.

One thing has become very clear during the reprogramming, and that is that we need a budget, not another continuing resolution for 2014.

HASC Republican members sent a letter to the President, arguing that the Obama administration has once again offered up America's missile defense as a bargaining chip.

I certainly want to reassure the American people we are--have extraordinary monitoring capability.

Shouldn't we take a look at what options are possible for boost-phase missile defense?

I want to assure you that Congresswoman Davis and I are maintaining the high standards of the military personnel subcommittee that you established.

Today the subcommittee will hear testimony on the Transition Assistance Program run by the Department of Defense, Department of Labor, and Department of Veterans Affairs which assist transitioning military members as they prepare to…

Thank you, Dr. Wenstrup. And thank all of you for being here today. We can certainly see your commitment to working with military service members, military families and retirees.

The hearing will come to order.

The ``Healthcare for Early Retirement Eligible Reservists Act'' (H.R. 738), sponsored by HASC Personnel Subcommittee Chairman Representative Joe Wilson (SC)

I think the reasons that we went to Afghanistan still remain.

Are there plans for ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] to work with Afghans to develop a plan to extend U.S. support contracts to assist and mentor the security forces in building critical sustainment capabilities that will…

I am cautiously optimistic that we have made significant progress with the insider threat.

What is being done to avoid and reduce these attacks?

I have been there 11 times and, indeed, I have seen the substantial progress. I just hope it can be sustained.

We cannot be a permanent crutch. We have to transition.

We are not going to eliminate the Taliban from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. The question is can we contain them and what is the best strategy for containing them?

We want to make sure that we have an Afghan government that can stand, that can be stable, that has security and governance without us, because we cannot have a permanent presence there.

Additionally, Secretary Clinton was very positive in promoting trade.

Sadly, in the most recent budget, the administration is reducing the funding for the construction of the facility.

As we proceed, in 1999, one of the achievements of the Clinton administration was a nonproliferation agreement with the Russian Federation.

I hope we can proceed with that. Energy, which would be so important for that country to continue its development.