We want to make sure the best possible closure or realignment choices are made,

If we close New London down, we'll never get it back.

We have real questions with regard to some of the recommendations as they apply to the Air National Guard.

The emerging nuclear threat that we are facing in the world today leaves uncertain the force structure of nuclear-powered submarines of the future. If we close New London down, we would never get it back. I think it would be a tragic mistake, a tragic loss for this nation.

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, all of them in harm's way, deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care.

I fail to see at this point how you could arrive at the figures they arrived at. We're going through this effort to save money from excess capacity to modernize forces. If the savings aren't there, and it costs money to do this on top of all the economic upheaval, why are we doing this?