Did we have an option to stay?
If you want to talk about a nation that could pose an existential threat to the United States, I would have to point to ...
My assessment today, Senator, is that Russia presents the greatest threat to our national security.
I have spoken many times about the lack of an audit. The only agency in the Federal Government that we do not audit is t...
I think it is important that we attempt to maintain a military-to-military relationship, an effective military-to-milita...
This is not the Guard that we knew. This is not the Guard of 20 years ago.
Thank you for the service you have given to this body in the Senate and to this committee for many, many years.
We are a superpower and we want to remain that superpower and we want to make sure that our people are the best trained,...
Let me tell you why the audit is so important and why I am so committed to having an audit of the Defense Department.
There is not a person in West Virginia, not a person in the country that won't sacrifice for a person in uniform.
About the red tape, I just couldn't believe what I heard yesterday, all the red tape that they have to go through to get...
I am very concerned about the cost of our military and if it is being spent efficiently.
This is not a partisan thing. This is basically an American thing we want to get done.
We are all concerned, I think, and our chairman has taken the lead on this, how we are going to accelerate what we do an...
I know they want to, but when they know that it is not going to cost them anything when it is breached...
I am just saying the innovative and creative ideas will come if you make me responsibility and hold me liable.
The West Virginia National Guard is partnering with the University of Charleston and the Blue Ridge Technical College on...
Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. I am so sorry because we've got two or three meetings going on.