F-35 operations and sustainment costs are a major concern

I think it is very important that the public understand that we are talking about the lowest percentage of GDP for the defense budget in something like 70 years, 3.1 percent.

Would it be advantageous to our country for us to ratify the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea?

So you are committing to me a serious and unrelenting commitment to nonproliferation.

It is very important to make that point to the public because sometimes people just look at the number and say this is a huge number.

I am not attacking you. I am attacking the failure of our structure to adequately get at a problem when we have it right in front of us.

I think that's one of the things that's lacking--prior administration, current administration. Let's just get it done.

I believe that UNCLOS [United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea] gives Russia the potential to, 'Own almost half of the Arctic Circle.'

Thank you again for your support of S. 2001 and S. 2102 on Acadia, and I really want to express the appreciation of the entire Maine delegation for the work that the Department has done.

I am a strong supporter of the National Park System, a firm believer in its mission to protect and preserve the natural and cultural resources of this nation for the enjoyment of future generations.

I believe that this country needs a clear doctrine: What is a cyber-attack, what is an act of war, what will be the response, what will be the consequences?

We are trying to fight a global battle with our hands tied behind our back.

There's no doubt, as you all have testified today, and it would -- we cannot confront this threat, which is a serious one, with a whole of government response when the leader of the government continues to deny that it exists.

But deterrence doesn't work unless the other side knows it.

There is no question--we've got before us the entire intelligence community--that the Russians interfered in the election in 2016, they're continuing to do it, and they're a real imminent threat to our elections in a matter of eight or…

We cannot confront this threat, which is a serious one, with a whole of government response when the leader of the government continues to deny that it exists.

I am sick and tired of going to these hearings, which I've been going to for five years, where everybody talks about cyber-attacks, and our country still does not have a policy or a doctrine or a strategy for dealing with them.

We have to have a doctrine of deterrence. If they strike us in cyber, they are going to be struck back in some way.