first, let me thank my colleague from New Hampshire, Senator Shaheen, for her extraordinary commitment and leadership as my fellow cochair of the Senate Diabetes Caucus. We are introducing a bill to improve access to innovative diabetes…

This past December, Congress passed the fiscal year 2021 NDAA, which included section 21, I know you are familiar with...

Let me just say, we're proud of the work that the shipbuilders did, they got it done.

I just wanted to talk a little bit more about some of what you were talking about with Representative Luria.

we need more DDGs patrolling the Pacific, not fewer.

The Biden Administration is committed to maintaining Israel's Qualitative Military Edge as a policy priority.

Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Fox nomination?

China, on the other hand, now has the world's largest Navy, has about 60 more ships than our own fleet.

So if there were more commercial, market-based policies being applied in our forests, we'd have a healthier forest, would we not?

One of the things I have learned in studying the issues of the forest is that a growing forest sequesters more carbon than a mature forest.

the administration's budget prioritizes national security and homeland security spending last, relative to, seemingly, every other area of the budget.

I appreciate your extraordinary service and your straightforward testimony here today.

I am very concerned that Afghanistan is going to fall to the Taliban and that we, once again, will see the imposition of Sharia law.

30 percent of the forest land in America is federal. 70 percent of acreage burned last year was on federal land. There's something wrong here.

What in the hell is happening?

So I think from a point of view of carbon, if greater harvesting... can actually contribute to the sequestration of carbon.

one of the biggest mistakes in the budget, from my perspective, is the decision to cut a DDG from the current multi-year procurement contract.

I am introducing legislation to have a Blue Ribbon Commission to examine the inventory process to see if it needs to be changed.