Kay Bailey Hutchison

The impact on local school districts is an issue that we also have to keep in mind.

I would just like to follow-up and ask General Fox, would you say that Vandenberg is still a priority, as it was last year?

The budget request for BRAC is $246 million.

By the way, I support the 30,000 totally.

I just think because they're different, we shouldn't forget about them as a way to become more efficient.

I think we should be in old buildings longer than just tearing things down and rebuilding them when they're perfectly good buildings.

Madam Vice Chairwoman, I would agree with you totally on wanting to know how much of the agreements have been made on costs and cost sharing, but there's one little semantic thing, we don't need the permission of Korea to leave a base or…

Yes, well, Carswell is a great example and that's a different priority.

I would hope that your services would look at the fact that you're operating out of a 60 year old building.

I hope that you will factor that in as quickly as possible as we are looking at some pretty substantial investments in traditional housing.

I'm encouraged that the funding request for the National Guard and Reserve components, at $620 million, is a rise considerably from last year's request.

Do you see Navy bases overseas coming back, and is that something that is going to figure into your BRAC and our Military Construction decisions in the future?

We need to address that, and provide for it if in fact it's as bad as we think it is.

I think that is a very important point, and on jointness, which the Senator from Louisiana has focused on...

Well, certainly placement is a big part of it.

We may want to look at that as we get closer to the time that we're going to pass our bill

It just seems that if you're going to have by April of next year, at the very latest, an idea where you're going to move them, it surely would help if we could not wait for the whole BRAC process.

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I agree with what you have said. We do have boots on the ground in two very dangerous places...

As a member of this committee, I have been privileged to visit with our soldiers who are fighting to free Iraqis...

Knowing how the Army is successfully confronting an adversary which does not wage open battle against the United States...

I think we found out yesterday... that an al Qaeda-connected animal perpetrated a heinous crime on videotape in Baghdad.

Thank you, Senator, for giving me the opportunity to do this.

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I agree with what you have said. We do have boots on the ground in two very dangerous places...