Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I raised concerns then about the Pentagon's overseas military construction program, particularly in Germany, Korea, and…”

“I raised concerns then about the Pentagon's overseas military construction program, particularly in Germany, Korea, and Guam, because, as the ranking member of the Military Construction Subcommittee, I am seeing that we are changing a strategy. Yet we have not had the strategy explained to us. This is the beginning of a huge taxpayer-funded influx of rebuilding overseas in a way that I think is perhaps duplicative and even against the interests that have been shown in our previous strategy. I think it is time to take a pause. I rise to speak because the GAO has just released a study this week that says we should take a pause. The Military Construction Subcommittee, chaired by Senator Johnson--and I respect and appreciate his leadership in this so much--asked the GAO to do a study because we were seeing the Army coming in and asking for what is going to be a commitment for $1 to $2 billion to change their headquarters from Heidelberg to Wiesbaden and to add more BCTs than were originally intended to stay in Germany.”