Book excerpt: Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2004, Vol. 2: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eight Congress, First Session, on S. 1050 Senator talent. Mr. Chairman, that is yet another reason I am grateful for Senator Collins having received that honor. [laughter.] Senator kennedy. We have not accepted those rules. We still use old seniority, and I do not want Jack Reed and others to be hearing about this. [laughter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.