mrs. tsongas. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the opinion of the chair the ayes have it. he motion is adopted. and agreed to. is there an additional motion on the republican side? >> mr. chairman? thank you, mr. chairman. this is the mti number ten during a brief description. this would prevent the establishment of new bureaucracies, and fisa panels, other fairly responsible entities that would add to the expanding government work force that have taxpayer expense. and again, for someone that is in an area that has been pretty hard hit by this recession especially on the manufacturing site we've seen across this country since 20,078.4 million jobs lost, wages falling and the americans throughout this country have tightened their belts. yet despite the hard times there is one industry that has had an incredible boom in hiring and that is the federal government, and over all government in general has added 100,000 jobs. that is the slide number 19 put up. as we are waiting, as you can see when the slide comes up, and again this is from the bureau of labor statistics, the blue

mr. chair. >> the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from maryland, miss tsongas. >> massachusetts. >> massachusetts my apologize. >> i know general fuller is from massachusetts as well and we're proud of it. first i'd like to thank all of our witnesses for being here. i appreciate all the time and effort you've not only put into this hearing but that you put into providing our servicemembers with the best force protection equipment available. your efforts truly save lives and i thank you for that. general fully, nice to see you again. i want to commend you and all of our witnesses on the fine work that has been done throughout the past eight years to improve soldier surviveability on the battlefield due to improvements in body armor. the services have come a long way to insure, every soldier, sailor, airmen and marine has individual protection equipment that they need but there's still far to go and i still have some concerns about how the department of defense is going to meet the requirements of reduced weight, operationally tailored body armor. my primary concern the department of defense failed