I believe that President Putin has clearly come to the conclusion that there is little price to pay here.

As administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, do you have the authority to secure the Southwestern Border of the United States if you wanted to do it?

Section 257 B1 of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act requires budget scorekeeping decisions to assume that funding for entitlements already is adequate to make all payments required by those laws.

We have made a commitment to do a job fair annually and to move it around my district.

So, when someone files a fraudulent claim, they file it at the State level...

A family of four in my district only makes $32,000 and the highest unemployment in the State of Alabama is in my district.

Given that for the last 2 years Medicaid improper payments have exceeded $36 billion, does CMS inflate its funding request to include improper payments?

I think earlier Congresswomen Black asked about the new baseline being altered with CSR payments.

You need to get between me and the president. You cannot leave me alone with the president.

I think we cannot ignore this, that there has been a dramatic increase in addiction in the States that have expanded.

You referenced the Aegis Ashore system. Could you give us an update on the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor that we've developed, you've developed, with Japan?

I think we are keenly aware in Alaska, with our geography, that with regards to recent events in North Korea, the rising tension with Russia, to make sure that we are amply prepared is a national security priority.

But we've seen a lot of hope and promise in that area, have we not?

I worry as well about providing more funds than you can responsibly allocate and spend.

Congress appropriated in 2018 $11.5 billion for the Missile Defense Agency, which is greater than 5--greater than $3 billion above the initial request by the President.

As much as you can in this setting here, could you explain how the threat from North Korea is advancing and describe the importance, General, of improving and expanding our homeland missile defenses?

So where does this new East Coast-based missile defense site rank in your priority list?

Well, let me tell you one thing we've learned. Iron Dome's Tamir interceptor cost $96,000. Our Patriot MSE missile cost $4 million.