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Washington, D.C. – Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee Ranking Member Michael Turner (R-Ohio) released the following prepared remarks for the subcommittee’s hearing on the Administration’s Space Posture Review and the Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for national security space activities:
“Thank you Mr. Chairman. I join you in welcoming General Kehler, Mr. Butler, Ms. Sapp and Mr. Payton. Thank you for appearing before this subcommittee.
Washington, D.C.—The House Armed Services Committee today marked up H.R. 5013, the IMPROVE Acquisition Act. The legislation, which was generated from a year-long study by the committee’s Defense Acquisition Reform Panel, builds upon the reforms enacted last year to the Department of Defense’s weapons systems procurement process. Ranking Member Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-Calif.) released the following prepared statement for the markup:
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, today released the following opening statement for the subcommittee’s hearing on the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for the Defense Health Plan:
“Thank you, Chairwoman Davis. Today the Subcommittee meets to hear testimony on the Defense Health Program for Fiscal Year 2011. Although we routinely have an annual hearing on the Defense Health Program, I believe there is nothing routine about the military health system and the extraordinary care it provides to our service members and their families. I have firsthand knowledge of these remarkable military and civilian medical professionals from my son, Addison, who is an orthopedic resident in the Navy.
Washington, D.C.—U.S. House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-Calif.) today released the following statement in response to plans unveiled by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to reform America’s export control system:
“Republican members on the Armed Services Committee appreciate the Secretary’s efforts to improve and strengthen our nation’s export control system, and believe his efforts are necessary in an age when U.S. companies are so tightly interwoven within the international economic system.
Washington, D.C.—U.S. House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-Calif.), Armed Forces Strategic Forces Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Turner (R-Ohio), and Republican members on the committee today called attention to elements included in and certain information excluded from the Department of Defense’s Military Power Report on Iran. The report, which was mandated in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act, is designed to provide Congress and the Administration with an assessment of the Iranian regime’s current and future military strategy.
Rep. McKeon: “The Pentagon’s new report confirms Iran’s efforts to support and cultivate terrorist surrogates throughout the Middle East to attack American citizens and interests. The rogue regime has re-armed Hezbollah and provides the terrorist group hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The assessment also makes it perfectly clear that Iran has gone to great lengths to protect and hide its nuclear infrastructure. Nearly as troubling, Iran is developing anti-access, aerial-denial capabilities with its investments in mobile coastal defense cruise missiles, rockets launchers, coastal artillery and ballistic missiles.”
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, today released the following opening statement for the subcommittee’s hearing on how the military services are implementing the congressional requirement to provide medical examinations before separating service members diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to evaluate the Department of Defense’s capacity to provide medical care to service members diagnosed with PTSD:
Washington, D.C.—U.S. House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-Calif.) today released the following statement in response to the Department of Defense’s release of interim recommendations from its Fort Hood investigation:
“I appreciate that the Department of Defense is taking the initial steps to correct the failures that allowed an Army officer to be radicalized and attack his fellow soldiers at one of our nation’s largest military installations. Our service members and their families are under tremendous stress and should not have to worry about their safety while at home.
Washington, D.C.—The House Armed Services Committee today heard testimony from the leaders of a panel tasked by Congress to provide an independent assessment of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). Ranking Member Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-Calif.) released the following prepared statement for the hearing:
“Welcome to our witnesses, co-chairs Perry and Hadley, and thank you for being here this morning. While I know that the Independent Panel has only recently begun its work in earnest, I understand that the Panel is familiar enough with the document and underlying analysis to make initial findings. We look forward to your testimony today and thank you for agreeing to serve as Panel co-chairs.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, today released the following opening statement for the subcommittee’s hearing on how the U.S. Congress can support the U.S. military’s reserve components as an operational force:
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces today heard testimony from key Pentagon officials on the Ballistic Missile Defense Review and the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for missile defense programs. In his opening statement, Subcommittee Ranking Member Michael Turner (R-OH) called attention to the lack of details associated with the President’s re-designed plans to deploy a missile defense system in Europe to protect the United States and its allies.