we are skirting our responsibilities.

The importance of the Navy and Marine Corps role is becoming even greater with increased presence in the Asia-Pacific region.

We appreciate their leadership.

there is not enough money to do all the things we would like to be able to do in defense of our country, but we have to pick and choose.

I am sorry, but I am not going to let the Air Force get away with moving families, disrupting communities, and moving our airmen around whenever they feel like it without justification.

I have been asking for cost justifications for these movements for over 2 years now and I am yet to see an answer that shows me any cost savings.

I want to thank my friend from Oklahoma for his leadership in bringing focus to this important issue. The foundation for our country rests on the shoulders of ``we the people.'' Under our constitutional form of government, we the people…

I am going to fight to kill this one just as I fought to kill the other two.

I want to know exactly how much it is going to cost in actual dollars, fuel, MILCON, other relocation costs, manpower downtime, for these planes to move to Little Rock Air Force Base from Keesler Air Force Base.

I have serious questions about the speed at which the drawdown of the A-10 is going to occur prior to another weapon system being put in place.

I think the majority of this committee would agree with you and many Members in Congress.

We have a bipartisan and bicameral support of Congress in the last NDAA. Congress wants CHAMP.

What do you think will happen if we do not turn off sequester in 2016?

It seems like the Air Force is hellbent on moving these aircraft out of South Mississippi.

I think that whoever did the math in this instance is flat wrong.

The budget request that the President submitted on your behalf is not simply a collection of numbers and tables, it is an expression of your values and aspirations.

Would you support legislation that eliminates this security gap for water facilities and other critical infrastructure?

Some of us are just trying to figure out what is the objective criteria for selection.