Conservation, creates millions of jobs right here at home, makes us more Energy Secure and Energy Independent and works with our friends, not our enemies. And i think we can get it done. Ive been around here long enough to know that things arent easy but i refuse to be cynical, i refuse to be, you know, woe is me, the world is coming to an end, which i hear a lot around here. I think theres a lot of positive things going on in our country today. The economy is improving. In north dakota, your state, i think you have zero unemployme unemployment. I think we come in second at about 2 unemployment in louisiana because we are busy working not fighting but working together to produce energy jobs for the country. So i was very proud to support this efficiency bill in committee. I would like, of course, to see some other additional things added to it, but in to move it forward, voted for it, to move this bill forward to the floor. When i became the chair of the committee, i had committed to r
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I dont know. We havent taken any position about that. Im not sure entirely that people really understand the whole this phenomenon scientifically. And what the treatments are. That is also part of this. To encourage the scientific community, the medical community and the military to focus on this problem. If you can deal with the 45 who are likely to be revictimized, you would be reducing the incidents in the military in a big way. We didnt know quite enough to make a totally free recommendation on that point but this problem has to be addressed. The c. D. C. Is the Gold Standard on Public Health issues and to develop an approach. The only change i would like on the recommendation is to change one word. To consult, to expand services. This way they have got the option and maybe they will report some place else. Not only to expand, but to develop ssts too. This has been ignored and it is just a way of what are we going to do about this . If we can reduce this number, it would have a maj
No more bases, but more places. Our ability to cooperate out of places in the philippines, singapore, thailand, it is that rotational presence. I think we will see, the drawdown in europe as to go as small as a possibly go as it possibly could go. The main bases operate today, and it is the same thing. I think our presence will maintain the Newest Technology that they have so far. Those bases will stay at the robust stations of their at now that they are now. We will do it today with Theater Security packages, and we will do the same thing in the future. The exhibition area air force is one that we have been working continuously some hiccups with it and it should not have gone as it did. It is certainly viable in the asiapacific and part of that is distance along that. I love my navy brethren and they do incredibly great things for us, but the trouble in days when it takes us hours. You have to be there rapidly and have the ability to respond, and sometimes hours makes the difference.
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