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I look forward to working with you on this Committee, as well as the Ranking Member.

We need to ensure that our agricultural reporting is fair and accurate.

We are all here today in the interest of advancing safety to protect the traveling public.

This Committee, on a bipartisan basis, took action to avert a rail shutdown and set a realistic framework for implementation.

We are now about 10 months away from the December 31, 2018, statutory deadline for PTC.

These accidents underscore the importance of implementing PTC quickly, safely, and successfully.

We convene today's hearing at a critical time for positive train control, or PTC, implementation.

I, too, would like to echo the comments by Senator Collins and Senator King on the intent of the provision and our commitment to move this date back to the beginning of the year. This provision is needed to ensure that we are providing a…

Do you think those commissaries are valuable to the young people that are coming in?

We want them to stay in the Army. We want them to feel like this is a good profession for them and that there is a place for them, long term.

The point I guess I would make is this just is not the peer adversaries looking at our military operations.

But I think sometimes we have a tough time publicly being able to discuss how serious that threat is.

So are they more aggressive with regard to the deployment of militarily designed or systems that are designed with military purposes as we are?

I think that is being recognized in your posture position at this time.

They do not have any limitations in the INF, and they have built significant numbers of intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

Would you say that Russia is in compliance with the INF today?

Are we placing the appropriate emphasis on Africa?

That is a policy decision on our part.