it will be mr. klein. >> come to order. >>> the meeting will come to order. chair recognizes mr. klein. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, gentlemen, for being here, for your testimony, for your extraordinary service to our country. i very much appreciated, general dempsey, your testimony when you mentioned that the families have stood with us talking about our men and women in uniform and stressing the importance of keeping faith with the true source of our strength. that's our people. and it's in that line and vain that i want to raise a subject that i raised in the past in this committee. that's the subject of the sort of convoluted name of the post deployment mobilization absence -- deployment mobilization respite absence program. pdmra. the name is convoluted but pretty strayed forward. dod enacted this program in january of 2007 an recognizing that we have men and women deployed for extraordinarily long periods of time and rewarding them with this program so they could spend more time with the families, the families that stood with us, so we could keep faith with our men

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before i say anything else, i do want to conquer with mr. klein. iowans are in that red bull group as well, and we have many of the same concerns in iowa when it comes to the reserve. i want to thank all three of you for your service. i want to quote from the defense strategy. i quote the concept of reversability, including the vectors on which we place our industrial base, our people, our active reserve component balance, our posture and our partnership emphasis is a key part of our decision calculus, unquote. the strategic guidance also states that dod will, quote, make every effort to maintain an adequate industrial base, unquote. i strongly believe that a critical part of our industrial base is in fact organic base, or arsenals. certainly our ammunition plants and our depos. they provide i believe a critical function or a readiness and our ability to supply our troops in the event that we have another conflict. we're drawing down now. but in the event we have future conflicts, we've got to maintain i think the capabilities of the organic base t

it will be mr. klein. >> come to order. chair recognizes mr. klein. >> thank you mr. chairman.nk you, gentlemen, for being here for your testimony, for your extraordinary service to our country. i very much appreciated general dempsey, your testimony when you mentioned the families have stood with us, talking about our men and women in uniform, and stressing the importance of keeping faith with the true source of our strength. that's our people. and it's in that line, in that vein, mr. secretary, that i'm going to raise a subject that i've raised in the past in this committee. and that's the subject of the sort of -- what the sort of convoluted name of the post deployment mobilization respite absence program. pdmra. and although the name little convoluted, it's a little straight forward. dod enacted this program back in january of 2007 with the express purpose of taking care of our troops recognizing that we have men and women deployed for extraordinarily long periods of time. and rewarding them with this program so that they can spend more time with those families, the familie

mr. inahosa. >> thank you. chairman klein and congressman don payne. i am pleased to see such a distinguished first panel of governors here for our committee discussion on job creation. today, i want to urge my colleagues to work in a bipartisan manner on a jobs agenda that creates jobs at home, educates our young adults, and reignites the american dream. i certainly support that last discussion that you had on the supporting the federal investment made in community colleges. as you know, u.s. congress has not reauthorized wea, which we passed in 1998. i think that's shameful. governor malloy, in your testimony you urge us to reauthorize it. what are your top -- this question is to governor malloy. what are your top three priorities that we in congress should look at to reform wea and improve the job training program for the next five years? >> well, let me say that i -- wea is an important program which i think connecticut has used quite effectively. and so i'm not here to criticize the program. what i'm saying is, is we've done the right thing. we ha

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