Lindsey Graham

One of the key components of the Exceptional Family Member Program is assignment coordination to determine if special needs services are available at a servicemember's next projected duty assignment.

Secretary Wright, during this time of great fiscal pressure on DOD, how would a large medical benefit expansion, of any kind, impact the readiness of servicemembers?

Secretary Woodson, if TRICARE coverage is expanded to provide ABA therapy for all children with developmental disabilities, will the available supply of ABA therapy providers accommodate the increased demand for services?

Secretary Woodson, if DOD offered ABA therapy to all persons with developmental disabilities, what would be the estimated additional annual costs to DOD?

Can you explain how that would work and how you get that much savings so quickly?

When did DOD realize that Obamacare mandates would increase DOD health care costs?

How will the families of servicemembers who qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program be impacted by higher commissary prices?

Do you believe that some commissaries will eventually close if their sales volumes diminish so much that they cannot cover their expenses?

What will be the impact of reduced sales on commissary and exchange employees--many of whom are military spouses and retirees?

How will DOD make up the lost funds generated by exchange sales that support critical MWR activities?

How much will foot traffic decrease in the military exchange system if fewer beneficiaries choose to shop in commissaries?

Did the administration consider the full impact of decreased commissary subsidies on the purchasing power of young military families who can least afford higher grocery bills?

Do any of you envision reducing pay as a reform?

Does everybody on the panel agree that any retirement changes need to be prospective and that we grandfather the current system enrollees?

I'm looking at trying to make structural changes that will affect quality-of-life in a more reasoned way.

If Congress could find $2 billion outside of DOD to interject into this budget process this year, a lot of these choices that we're talking about, structural changes, could be delayed until the commission reports back.

The structural changes do have a ripple effect, and if the shopping becomes less at the commissary, eventually people are less likely to shop at the BX and PX.

I hope we'll reevaluate what we've done to the military and to some other vital programs.

I want to associate myself with the chairwoman's comments. I understand where you're coming from.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses this morning concerning the administration's proposed cuts to pay and benefits to servicemembers in the 2015 budget request.

Could you provide for the Committee the basic outline of the current Navy aviation tire management contract?

Sequestration was just a bad idea. And I find it almost amusing that all of us would be complaining about the effects of it, but we did it to ourselves.

Do you agree with me, General Amos, pound for pound, the Marine Corps is the best investment in the world?

I just think it would be smart to wait for the commission.

Count me in for structural changes as part of any sustainable military.