Deborah Lee James: “We cannot get our job done without our Guard and Reserve.”

I think virtually everybody agrees that we would like to, as the United States of America, not be so reliant on a Russian engine going forward into the future.

The era in which the United States could project military power without challenge has ended.

If we return to sequestration in fiscal year 2018, this will exacerbate the readiness problem and set us even farther back.

That is why I am so grateful to really you on this committee, among others, for coming together this year and putting together a bipartisan budget agreement.