What are the U.S. strategic objectives in Afghanistan?

I wouldn't have voted for that $800 billion stimulus package which contains almost twice what these cuts were.

Wouldn't you have agreed that that would have been a better approach?

If we are looking at that in a strategy that denotes more challenges there in the future, especially with our naval capability...

We wish we could have had it before the President pushed through an $800 billion stimulus package that many of us believed was ill advised.

As Village Stability Operations and the Afghan Local Police Program expands we have seen increasing numbers of U.S. Special Operations Forces operating in remote and isolated areas.

I know that part of that strategy is an increased operational capability and presence in both the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific.

I think Mr. Cooper brings up a great point on accountability, and about past actions, current investigations.

I want to thank my co-chair, Chairman Joe Wilson, and our ranking members, Jim Cooper and Susan Davis, for their steadfast commitment.

It has been an honor to work with you over the months, and we look forward as we continue along this journey.

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With that, Madam Speaker, we have no further speakers, and I also yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wittman) that the House suspend the…

I want to thank our conferees and the members of the Armed Services Committee once again, and I want to thank our staff directors, Bob Simmons and Paul Arcangeli. This conference report addresses a wide array of policy issues, from…

H.R. 2304 addresses a timely issue that must be addressed before the end of this year, to prevent uninformed fishery management decisions.

I too support the concept of adding SSC oversight.

I think our position has been pretty clear on that. We have been opposed to it from the beginning because we think the agency has the flexibility to do it.

H.R. 2304, introduced by Representative Wittman, is a good start, but it fails to help all fishermen.

What I just heard from Mr. Shelley and what I heard from the Charterboat Association was we don't think you ought to amend the Magnuson Act.

I urge my colleagues to support sound science and resource management by supporting H.R. 2304, the Fishery Science Improvement Act.

This bill is a common sense measure to add sunlight to the fisheries management process, and I urge the Committee to support it.

Preserving these resources requires attention to detail--to science, resource allocation, and management.

Mr. Wittman's proposed bill eases requirements that will provide more access to fisheries by recreational fishermen but does little to allow commercial fishermen similar access to their fisheries.

We need to pass this bill and we need to pass it urgently, as soon as possible.

I think we all hear concerns from time to time about the validity and the robustness of the data used to make these very difficult decisions.

Conserving our natural resources for generations to come is a priority for me and many of the folks here with us today.