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The mission-capable rate for the F-35 in February was just 53 percent.

The seven operational imperatives that you and the Chiefs have established for the Air Force and Space Force provide a useful framework for our analysis this morning.

I appreciate your holding this hearing on the Air Force's fiscal year 2024 budget request.

Do you anticipate requesting a supplemental to cover increased fuel costs?

The Department is proposing to retire three times as many aircraft as it plans to buy this year.

It appears that this was going on for many months without the Airman, allegedly, being caught.

Until that new system is in place, I welcome the Department's continued commitment to recapitalizing all of the legacy KC-135 aircraft across the Air Force.

Eisenhower retook Europe in 11 months. I am not sure we need to wait three or four years to decide how much wood we are going to cut.

$100 million for a $58 billion asset base is an insult to the people of the United States.

I am totally in, yes, sir.

The Great American Outdoors Act was a heavy lift around here.

If you have it here, you have it over here.

Don't use the term reciprocity if it's not reciprocity. Okay?

I want to thank you for what you're doing and the progress that you have made.

I'm concerned that we now have another major data breach.

We can't fix every problem, but, boy, we ought to be able to fix that one.

Our asylum system is fundamentally broken. Our whole immigration system is broken and I very much look forward to working with you on a bipartisan basis.

Finally, let me very briefly mention and remind you of the pressing need for a new Border Patrol station in Houlton, Maine.