mr. conaway. we proceed to mr. critz of pennsylvania. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm trying to get my arms around this. mr. lepore, you said that in the '70s at some point jurisdictional responsibility for -- is it every other national -- or any other veterans cemetery was transferred to the va? >> the army at the time managed 82 cemeteries -- or 82 national cemeteries, and under the 1973 national cemeteries act, those cemeteries transferred to the department of -- what was then just the va, now the department of veterans affair, except for two. arlington did not transfer and the soldiers and airmen's home national cemetery here in washington did not transfer. the army retained those. >> okay. is there any trouble like we're experiencing in arlington at any of these other cemeteries? >> we have not audited anybody beyond the activities at arlington, so i really can't say. i certainly have seen some press accounts, but we have not -- our audit was focused on arlington. >> prior to what was reported -- what's that? almost four years ago. had there ever been an audit

mr. conaway. -- before mr. chairman. that's a hard act to follow. i am a cpa and i'm trying to figure out the record keeping progress which is core to some of the stuff that went on. the report went through an era where starting and 99 there something called the boss system that's i guess the ravee a cemetery system. did you have anybody look at the state of the large cracks people who control cemeteries and burials willing to the united states and there's a full industry of that. there's nothing unique about handling remains and varying folks to the military on to those folks a little bit more than the general. so, help me understand what the current system is versus the system that would normally find in a relatively modern summitry operation. >> the system is veterans affairs. the operational scheduling system that the va -- >> it does scheduling and it also is the system that the gravestones, the markers are ordered from. so that is how arlington uses the system. >> so it's not -- the mcginn is a scheduling system that va uses to the interim and

mr. conaway? >> thank you, and gentlemen, thank you for being here today. appreciate that i want to make a fortuitous comment. we appreciate the continued commitment to the program because i do think those are important to leaner and more agile and all those kind of adjectives that we throw at it. but those are the tools that i think allow you to go that. following up on mr. rogers' comments, and perhaps page 7 of your summary listing army components, you list the reserve component as one unit. and maybe today or soon we can start that arduous conversation about why we have a reserve and a guard. not today, but it may make sense given the look at it. i was here in '05 and on and watched some of the struggles of converting the guard and reserve from a strategic force with a domestic mission to a tactical force that was used extensively to today down range you can't tell, unless you know the patches and understand the work chart, you can't tell the difference between a guard unit and an active duty unit. general, over the next five to ten years, will you have

mr. conaway? >> thank you, gentlemen. and thank you for your long service and demonstrated patience this morning with being here. leon, i want to add my comments to what rob andrews said. thank you for your forward lean on the audit issue and sustaining and audit and properly resourcing that. bob hale and your team, the ripples that your comments have made and the

mr. conaway? >> thank you, gentlemen. and thank you for your long service and demonstrated patience this morning with being here. leon, i want to add my comments to what rob andrews said. thank you for your forward lean on the audit issue and sustaining and audit and properly resourcing that. bob hale and your team, the ripples that your comments have made and the efforts that have gone forward since october, i'm seeing them felt all down through the organization, which is where it's got to get done. so thank you for that. and i appreciate it. we still don't know yet from general allen, you said yesterday to the senate, how we're going to bring home the 23,000 that are scheduled this year. i'm just worried that your comments of the last few weeks were a little premature. i don't think anybody says it's gotten a whole lot safer in the east of afghanistan. and i understand that the glowing comments you were just making about the afghan army. concern that the fighting season in 2013 is split by ramadan, and we would have our

mr. conaway. >> thank you mr. chairman in thanks for coming.want to hit a couple of things that have been asked and give you something more broad. with respect to the afghanistan has the i see changed or amended their analysis for the karzai government to control their country over the last couple of months that would have given rise, and i know david you said we overanalyze what leon said yesterday but that was a startling statement. did the i see changed their assessment of afghanistan and their capabilities over the last several months and if so why? >> i think it was a startling overanalysis, not necessarily a startling statement. if you go back and read what he said. sir, if i could this is exactly in line with the policy. we started back in the summer of 2011 transitioning leadership of combat operations, i isaf to afghan forces. and progressively completed by the end of 2014. >> i understand david. he said he would have all troops out by the end of 2013. >> he did not say that. he said all troops out i think withdraw forces by the end of

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mr. conaway from texas will be addressing the chamber. i don't know if he has the statistics right in front of him, but according to testimony again before committee, 170 firms supply the canadian oil sands from texas, 170 firms supply the canadian oil sands and i yield to the gentleman from texas. . >> i thank the gentleman for allowing me to join in, i hope they won't kick me out since i'm not a member of the freshman class. i want to foe through what canada has gone through, trying to get through all the hoops that anybody doing a project of this scope has to do -- go through. they started in 2008 when they started this pipeline. the state department wouldn't be involved at all, except it crosses an international boarer. if this stayed within the united states, the state department an the president would be out of it. in april of 2010, the state department issued their draft environmental impact study. then a couple of months later in june of 2010, e.p.a. weighed in with the results of their technical review was deficient and didn't pr

mr. conaway? >> thank you, gentlemen. thank you for your long service and demonstrated patience this morning with being here. leon, i want to add my comments to what rob andrews said. thank you for your forward lean on the audit issue and sustaining and audit and properly resourci that. bob hale and your team, the ripples that your comments have made and the efforts that have gone forward since october, i'm seeing them felt all down through the organization, which is where it's got to get done. so thank you for that. and i appreciate it. we still don't know yet from general allen, you said yesterday to the senate, how we're going to bring home the 23,000 that are scheduled this year. i'm just worried that your comments of the last few weeks were a little premature. i don't think anybody says it's gotten a whole lot safer in the east of afghanistan. and i understand that the glowing comments you were just making about the afghan army. concern that the fighting season in 2013 is split by ramadan, and we would have our folks