Jim Webb

The use of psychiatric medications has increased about 76 percent overall since the start of the current wars.

I think we undervalue what we can get out of people who haven't yet finished high school.

Does anyone else have any thoughts on that?

We will do so with men and women of the highest caliber whose willingness to serve, is a credit to this great Nation.

There's no greater responsibility for Congress and military leaders, as our witnesses all know, than to care and provide for our servicemembers and for their families.

I know Senator Graham has to go, and he wanted to----

TRICARE will not be affected, as long as I have anything to do with it.

Yes, I've actually heard them in other hearings, so----

I'd just say as an observation, one, we do have a really stressed, young force, because of these deployments.

Well said. In that respect, it probably goes back to one of the possibilities that I was raising here.

17 percent of the Active-Duty Force, and as much as 6 percent of deployed troops, are on antidepressants.

I really want to work on this so we can aggressively address it.

There's a lot of questions, here in Congress, about how that reflects upon the dignity of Service, quite frankly.

Senator, I'm not familiar with the article, but I think you raise, obviously, a very important question about the extent of prescription drug use and whether this is an indicator of stress, or is this a new push to medicine?

We have a problem recruiting JAGs?

I am one of those who believe it is critical that the United States accelerate its deployment of nuclear energy.

I can think of nothing more important to job creation than lots of low cost, clean, reliable nuclear energy.

We cannot remain as a viable balancing force in the Pacific without these bases.

I contacted the White House when I was on Guam, trying to make the point that this isn't simply a transportation issue; it's a national security issue.

I think we're going to have to start talking more realistically about what those timelines are and calm people down.

I do have a good deal of empathy for that area of Florida for the fact that they have lost ships due to retirement.

It has come to my attention that three critical health and safety projects at Fort Monroe, VA, remain unfunded, in spite of the Army's plan to transfer ownership of that installation's property to the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2011.

I salute both of you for very careful statements.

What we're looking for here is an examination of the present law, what is the most damaging aspect of the present policy?

This is obviously quite an emotional issue, but it's also a legislative issue.