It is really important to me that our airmen have everything they need to fight our wars overseas, both today and in the future.

Extending TRICARE service to cover the 'gray area' between retirement from the reserves and the start of retirement health benefits would improve our ability to care for reserve members and their families.

Governor Locke is the only Commerce Secretary nominee, to my knowledge, who has personally negotiated a fishing treaty to balance fishing and environmental interests.

I am very proud to recommend Gary Locke to be the next Secretary of Commerce at this important time in our Nation's history.

Could you get back to me on that? It was one of our huge questions 1 year ago; making sure that people were registered and we were tracking them.

While the surgeons general aren't responsible for the enforcement of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice, it seems to me that they might be concerned about prosecutions of people who have severe mental distress while serving or after…

I really commend you. I think you have made a lot of progress with that, and it is so important...

It is a great program, and I want to commend you for doing that.

I will work with you to make sure we have what we need within the budget process on that.

Clearly this is a real challenge. We all want the best aircraft at the end of the day.

If we don't start thinking about it now, we're going to be in a bad place.