Let me submit that to the question. If we're concerned about recidivism, I would like to know...

Those who would argue that this is something that cannot be dealt with through the Article 3 courts of the United States that have withstood the test of time since 1787 are clearly, in my view, not looking at this data.

I want it for the record, because I want it answered in writing, and I want all committee members to have it.

There are some members of the Budget Committee here and we are starting to work on that right now, so I appreciate that comment.

A lot of your testimony has focused on multi-disciplinary approach in Maine, the pulling together the stakeholders.

I cannot imagine a better time for us to be focused on this.

The powers that be noted that this Committee was entirely too youthful and vigorous and they wanted to add somebody with graying hair and receding hair to it, and that is why I am here.

I think increased funding--I know that is the refrain, but I think, again, it is really needed here.

By my count, 95 of 100 Senators are now on record either by voting in the budget or voting in the National Defense Authorization Act.

I am really advocating about the prevention in the Department of State, and I will diligently work for that.

We have just gotten a 2-year budget deal and an NDAA.

Do you think it would be received positively by the troops who we are asking to deploy far from home and risk their lives if Congress were to have a debate and authorize and affirm the U.S. mission against ISIL?

Thank you, General Neller, and to your family. Congratulations on a wonderful service, thus far.

Sequester doesn't just affect defense by affecting the Department of Defense. The nondefense accounts, Department of Energy being one, that are affected by sequester also have a significant effect on our national security.

I think there has been some suggestion that if we fix sequester for defense, that is all that we need to do.

Senator McCain first raised in September in a hearing... the question of if we train folks to fight ISIL in Syria and they get attacked by the Assad regime, will we protect them?

The timing is exquisite. Yesterday the Vatican announced that this Sunday would be an international day of prayer against human trafficking.

But the fact was before 2012, nobody was even under audit.

If you can make a major advance on this audit issue, then we will put a statue of you up out here.

I view India and the Indian navy as a partner of growing importance as we look at this pivot to Asia.

The Virginia-class program, because of this kind of 'coopetition' between the shipyard at Newport News and Electric Boat in Connecticut, has been a pretty solid program.

You would expect, I guess, that if the other service branches go under for the first time in 2015, it is not likely that they are going to get a clean audit the first time around?

It is still my hope that the White House will send to us a draft authorization for use of military force.

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I think what the budget deal does is it starts to normalize two things: first, 2-year budgets instead of a 1-year budget.