If you are going to have a smaller buy and try to construct a portfolio of airplanes that winds up purportedly being cheaper, you have to factor in a higher unit cost as part of the calculation.

Based on your testimony, it sounds like the enemy is optimism, and I do not know that we want to be pessimistic when we get into this.

I did not want the acquisition process to be separate from that conversation.

What has changed in this world in terms of communications in 12 years.

Unfortunately, at the onset of the program back in the 1990s was what happens frequently, and that is that everyone got together in the Department and basically deceived themselves about how hard the job was going to be and how expensive…

We are making sacrifices in the name of deficit reduction that relate to the number of troops.

We owe it to the men and women who are fighting to defend this country to give them the very best.

I have offered an amendment over the years to try to limit the metadata collection in terms of specific suspicion.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

America wants to have air superiority--period--over any possible enemy.

We have a responsibility to the taxpayers in achieving that goal to make sure we do not waste their money.

Our standard is on the collection of the records.

Thank you so much for your service.

Sequestration, the way it has been characterized, the way it has been implemented, is a pervasive problem.

This committee has been handed the baton on one of the last legs of the race.

When I took over as chairman of this subcommittee, I knew I had a lot to learn.

the United States would be prepared to reduce ceilings on deployed strategic warheads by as much as one-third below New START levels.

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor the many mom-and-pop shops and small businesses across the country as we celebrate National Small Business Week. I know firsthand the difference that small businesses make in our communities. Almost 70…