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House of Representatives Commonwealth of Pennsylvania * * * * Budget Hearing Department of Military & Veterans Affair Page 1 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA * * * * BUDGET HEARING DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY & VETERANS AFFAIRS * * * * House Appropriations Committee Main Capitol Building Majority Caucus Room 140 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Monday, February 25, 2013 - 10:00 a.m. 1300 Garrison Drive, York, PA 17404 717.764.7801 877.747.2760 Page 2 1 COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT: 2 Honorable William Adolph, Jr., Majority Chairman Honorable Ryan Aument 3 Honorable Karen Boback Honorable Jim Christiana 4 Honorable Gary Day Honorable Gordon Denlinger 5 Honorable Brian Ellis Honorable Mauree Gingrich 6 Honorable Glen Grell Honorable Seth Grove 7 Honorable Thomas Killion Honorable David Millard 8 Honorable Duane Milne Honorable Mark Mustio 9 Honorable Donna Oberlander Honorable Bernie O ’Neill 10 Honorable Michael Peifer Honorable Scott Petri 11 Honorable Jeffrey Pyle Honorable Curtis Sonney 12 Honorable Joseph Markosek, Minority Chairman Honorable Brendan Boyle 13 Honorable Matthew Bradford Honorable Michelle Brownlee 14 Honorable Michael Carroll Honorable Scott Conklin 15 Honorable Madeleine Dean Honorable Deberah Kula 16 Honorable Timothy Mahoney Honorable Michael O ’Brien 17 Honorable Cherelle Parker Honorable John Sabatina 18 Honorable Steve Santarsiero Honorable Jake Wheatley, Jr. 19 20 REPUBLICAN NON-COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT: 21 Honorable Stephen Barrar Honorable Lynda Schlegel Culver 22 Honorable R. Lee James Honorable Rick Saccone 23 Honorable Mark Gillen Honorable Will Tallman 24 Honorable Paul Clymer Honorable RoseMarie Swanger 25 Page 3 1 REPUBLICAN NON-COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT (CONT’D): 2 Honorable Katharine Watson 3 Honorable Dick Hess Honorable Ron Miller 4 Honorable Jerry Knowles Honorable Kate Harper 5 Honorable Marcy Toepel Honorable Becky Corbin 6 Honorable Ron Marsico 7 DEMOCRATIC NON-COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT 8 Honorable Dan Frankel 9 Honorable Chris Sainato Honorable William Kortz 10 Honorable Pamela DeLissio Honorable Ryan Bizzarro 11 Honorable Mark Longietti Honorable W. Curtis Thomas 12 Honorable Phyllis Mundy Honorable R. Ted Harhai 13 Honorable Nick Kotik Honorable Mark Keller 14 Honorable Michael McGeehan Honorable Michael Schlossberg 15 Honorable Stephen Kinsey 16 17 STAFF MEMBERS PRESENT: 18 David Donley Republican Executive Director 19 Ritchie LaFaver 20 Republican Deputy Executive Director 21 Dan Clark, Esquire Republican Chief Legal Counsel 22 Miriam Fox 23 Democratic Executive Director 24 Beryl Kuhr, Esquire Democratic Chief Legal Counsel 25 Page 4 1 INDEX OF TESTIFIERS 2 TESTIFIERS PAGE 3 PA Adjutant General Wesley Craig........ 10 4 5 6 7 8 9 INDEX OF REQUESTED DOCUMENTS OR INFORMATION 10 (None) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 5 1 CHAIRMAN ADOLPH: Thank you. Good 2 morning. I ’d like to call to order the House 3 Appropriations Budget Hearing. This morning’s 4 budget is on the Military and Veterans Affairs. 5 At this time, I’d like to go over a 6 couple introductions, as well as some 7 housekeeping. First, with the housekeeping. I 8 would ask all members and guests and testifiers 9 to check your cell phones and your iPhones and 10 please put them on silent. It will interfere 11 with the PCN coverage of the hearings. 12 Also, for the members and also for the 13 testifiers, if you could bring the microphones 14 as close to your voice as possible and try to 15 use a normal speaking voice. 16 My name is Bill Adolph. I’m the 17 Republican Chair for the House Appropriations 18 Committee, and I ’d like to welcome Major General 19 this morning. We will go through the 20 introductions. I ’d like each member to identify 21 themself and the area of the Commonwealth of 22 Pennsylvania that they represent. Thank you. 23 MR. DONLEY: I ’m Dave Donley; 24 Republican staff, Executive Director. 25 MR. CLARK: Dan Clark. I ’m Chief Page 6 1 Counsel of Republican Appropriations Committee. 2 REPRESENTATIVE BARRAR: Representative 3 Steve Barrar from Delaware and Chester County. 4 REPRESENTATIVE PETRI: Scott Petri; 5 178th District, Bucks County. 6 REPRESENTATIVE O ’NEILL: Good morning. 7 Representative Bernie O ’Neill; 29th District, 8 Centre and Bucks counties. 9 REPRESENTATIVE OBERLANDER: 10 Representative Donna Oberlander; Clarion and 11 Armstrong counties. 12 REPRESENTATIVE KILLION: Tom Killion; 13 Chester and Delaware counties. 14 REPRESENTATIVE ELLIS: Brian Ellis; 15 Butler County. 16 REPRESENTATIVE GROVE: Seth Grove; 17 York County. 18 REPRESENTATIVE SONNEY: Curt Sonney; 19 4th District, Erie County. 20 REPRESENTATIVE MILLARD: David 21 Millard; Columbia County. 22 REPRESENTATIVE CHRISTIANA: Jim 23 Christiana; Beaver County. 24 REPRESENTATIVE PYLE: Good morning. 25 Jeffrey Pyle; 60th Legislative District, Page 7 1 Armstrong and Indiana counties. 2 REPRESENTATIVE AUMENT: Ryan Aument; 3 41st District, Lancaster County. 4 REPRESENTATIVE JAMES: Lee James; 5 District 64, Venango and part of Butler County. 6 REPRESENTATIVE SCHLEGEL CULVER: Lynda 7 Schlegel Culver; part of Snyder and 8 Northumberland counties. 9 REPRESENTATIVE BOBACK: Karen Boback; 10 District 117, Luzerne, Wyoming, Columbia 11 counties. Good morning. 12 PA ADJUTANT GENERAL: Good morning. 13 REPRESENTATIVE DENLINGER: Good 14 morning. Gordon Denlinger from eastern 15 Lancaster County. 16 REPRESENTATIVE GINGRICH: Good morning, 17 General. Representative Mauree Gingrich; 18 Lebanon County, home to the stellar Indiantown 19 Gap military installation. 20 PA ADJUTANT GENERAL CRAIG: Good to 21 see you, m a ’am. 22 REPRESENTATIVE SACCONE: Rick Saccone; 23 39th District, Allegheny and Washington County. 24 CHAIRMAN MARKOSEK: Good morning. I ’m 25 State Representative Joe Markosek; Allegheny and Page 8 1 Westmoreland counties. I’m the Democratic 2 Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. 3 With us, we have some guest members here: 4 Representative Chairman Sainato, who is the 5 Democratic Chair of the Veterans Committee, as 6 well as Representative Mark Longietti and 7 Representative Bill Kortz and Representative 8 Ryan Bizzarro are also here. 9 MS. FOX: Miriam Fox; Executive 10 Director, House Appropriations Committee, 11 Democrat. 12 REPRESENTATIVE SAINATO: 13 Representative Chris Sainato. As Chairman 14 Markosek said, I’m the Democratic Chairman of 15 the House Veterans Affairs and Emergency 16 Preparedness Committee, and I represent the 9th 17 District which is in Lawrence County and a small 18 section of Beaver County. 19 REPRESENTATIVE BROWNLEE: Good 20 morning. State Representative Michelle 21 Brownlee; Philadelphia County, 195th Legislative 22 District. 23 REPRESENTATIVE PARKER: Cherelle 24 Parker, Philadelphia County, 200th District. 25 REPRESENTATIVE CARROLL: Good morning, Page 9 1 General. Mike Carroll, Luzerne and Monroe 2 counties. 3 REPRESENTATIVE O ’BRIEN: Good morning. 4 Mike O ’Brien; 175th District, Philadelphia. 5 REPRESENTATIVE MAHONEY: Good morning. 6 Tim Mahoney; 51st District, Fayette County. 7 REPRESENTATIVE KULA: Good morning. 8 Deberah Kula; Fayette and Westmoreland counties. 9 REPRESENTATIVE CONKLIN: Scott 10 Conklin; Centre County. 11 REPRESENTATIVE DEAN: Good morning. 12 Madeleine Dean; Montgomery County. 13 REPRESENTATIVE WHEATLEY: Good 14 morning. Jake Wheatley; Allegheny County, 19th 15 District, City of Pittsburgh. 16 REPRESENTATIVE SANTARSIERO: Good 17 morning, General. Steve Santarsiero, Bucks 18 County and part of my side or back, whatever the 19 case may be. 20 CHAIRMAN MARKOSEK: Representative Pam 21 DeLissio from Philadelphia County, is also here. 22 Thank you. 23 CHAIRMAN ADOLPH: Thank you, Chairman, 24 and thank you, members. As is the custom for 25 the budget hearing that we invite the standing Page 10 1 committee chair, both Republican and Democrat, 2 Chairman Barrar and, as Chairman Markosek said, 3 that Chairman Chris Sainato is present. 4 Good morning and welcome. 5 PA ADJUTANT GENERAL CRAIG: Thank you. 6 CHAIRMAN ADOLPH: Major General Craig, 7 thank you very much for being here today. And 8 more importantly, thank you very much for your 9 service to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I 10 want to express my gratitude to you and all the 11 members of the Pennsylvania National Guard. 12 Our guardsmen have been involved with 13 many operations, ranging from deployment to the 14 Middle East; responding to national disasters 15 here in Pennsylvania and responding to other 16 states to assist with their emergencies. We are 17 incredibly fortunate to have these men and women 18 who respond whenever asked to protect their 19 fellow citizens. 20 You can start with your remarks when 21 ready; then with questions we'll proceed. Thank 22 you. 23 PA ADJUTANT GENERAL CRAIG: Thank you, 24 Mr. Chairman. Just a few brief remarks. 25 As has been mentioned, the Department Page 11 1 of Military and Veterans Affairs has a dual 2 role; quality care and advocacy for the 960,000 3 Pennsylvania veterans of all wars, and command 4 and control of the Pennsylvania Army National 5 Guard and Air National Guard. 6 For veterans, we run six veterans’ 7 homes of some 1500 residents, involving some 8 1700 state workers. And we also outreach and 9 advocate for the 960,000 veterans that are in 10 the state. 11 We have three new programs which are 12 working very hard; the Veterans’ Trust Fund, 13 which I can speak about later. We’ve expanded 14 what we know as Act 66, which is the Veterans’ 15 Service Outreach Program, by adding 50 percent 16 to it in funding and be allowed to grow our 17 membership, or our numbers of workers in that by 18 another 50 percent; and we’re also just 19 expanding our outreach by reorganizing the 20 Department of Veterans Affairs. 21 Pennsylvania National Guard is 15,400 22 Army guardsmen, 3,900 Air guardsmen. It’s the 23 third largest in the United States. It is the 24 busiest in terms of proportion and total numbers 25 of mobilization for overseas deployment. But Page 12 1 now, in 11 years, 33,000 Pennsylvania Air and 2 Army guardsmen have been overseas for either 3 peacekeeping, combat or counterinsurgency 4 operations.
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