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This will tee up some of our other speakers who will come and talk to specific pieces of the direction that our Air Force is going , culminating with our acting secretary , who will give a fairly detailed run-down on what our budget for the future is going to look like . This coming Monday marks the end of my third month as your new under secretary , and I must tell you that it has been truly fantastic to be back serving in our United States Air Force . I spat stuff like oatmeal , full of silica and glass fibers . But those efforts have been to no avail , since taking office , the Bush Administration has removed 16.4 million acres of critical habitat protections and has opposed increasing the number of species threatened with extinction . On the first one , I would say that , in my own opinion , the situation in the area was sufficiently serious enough , sufficiently important enough to our national interest that we should not allow the kind of activities that were going on on the Southern edge of Europe . It 's called value investing , and when you play on that court , you can forget about three-pointers and just lope on in for layups .