CHARLES A. GONZALEZ: “Until we have the Department of Defense fully engaged and participating willingly, it's just not going to happen.”

I support the building of the pipeline, and I also believe that given the proper timelines to look at all factors that eventually this application will be approved with recommendations.

I do not think you are going to have a debate that English proficiency is something that I think enables and empowers individuals.

I hope that there will be a bipartisan bill introduced, obviously, in the Senate in June that will overhaul wartime contracting practices, and that we in the House will act accordingly and support our Senate colleagues.

What Mr. King's bill tries to do is not protect the English language, but to encourage us to have some basic commonality of communication.