It is critical that we continue to implement this longstanding commitment.

Funding to sequester levels removes flexibility to respond to emergent challenges.

What is your assessment of the impact sequestration would have on our amphibious forces and our Navy and Marine Corps' ability to execute DOD's pivot to Asia-Pacific?

Separatists that are backed by the Russian hierarchy.

For too long, Europe has relied on the American taxpayer for their security.

What is your view on how sequestration would threaten the Navy and Marine Corps' ability to decisively project power abroad?

If we don't stand behind our word on that article, then our word really does mean nothing.

Making these irreversible force structure changes to the Guard before we have had a chance to see what the Commission has to say about ARI would not be advisable and does not make sense to me.

United States policy towards Taiwan is governed by the Taiwan Relations Act.

Given sequestration's impending return a little more than two months from now, we must acknowledge that the world is more dangerous today than it was in 2013.

We've had discussion about Russia and the seriousness of the Russian threat, as well as the more immediate threat of ISIS.

Would you agree with me that the United States not providing defensive arms to Ukraine could send a message to Putin about a lack of resolve on Ukraine from the administration?

It is absolutely critical for the Nation to replace the Ohio-class submarines.

We have to remember that half the population of the world and half of its economy is in that region...

Without increased shipbuilding funding in fiscal year 2021 and beyond, the Ohio Replacement Program will consume the majority of the Navy's annual shipbuilding budget, costing the equivalent of 2-3 ships per year.

The rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region, as the term goes, is in my eyes a commitment to continue the pivotal American military role in the Asia-Pacific theater, which has kept peace and stability there for decades now.

Under article 4 of NATO, in my view it would be absolutely unacceptable.

We can meet both of these objectives, and we must.