I appreciate the gentleman's comments. It is very important that we try to find ways to try to work together when the form of this bill that we worked on in the committee last year, which is almost identical to the one that we adopted this…

One victory here doesn't mean it's a total victory. There'll be another problem somewhere else as long as this ideology is out there.

If they had that confidence, you would get more recruits.

this is a total failure. It's just a failure. I wish it weren't so, but that's the fact.

I would think if we started having some wins, ISIS would have fewer recruits and we would have better morale with the Iraqi recruits too.

There's a great deal of frustration, Secretary Carter, and concern that we're drifting and reacting and not in--don't have the kind of plan that will lead to success, number one.

I believe we are carrying out a strategy that the President has, and I do not believe it has sufficient respect for the use of military force necessary to be successful.

I believe the Defense Department is underestimating the significance of the refugee crisis, the impact it's having in Europe, the impact it's having in the United States.

this refugee crisis is the greatest threat to Europe since World War II.

A prompt, decisive action to create safe zones in Syria, where people don't have to flee their home country, can be kept safe there, would be positive as a matter of humanity and as a military possibility.

I think that Secretary Bob Gates was correct to say we need an overarching strategy for this whole deal with Islamic extremism in maybe 20, 30, 50 years.

I just believe, Ms. Wormuth, that we need a strategy, an understood strategy, bipartisan, in this Congress, with our allies around the world, to confront this long-term, multi-decade threat to the western democratic order and to try to…

I would like to thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and as someone who served as ranking member for this subcommittee back several years ago, I just want to express my support and the work for the Open World Leadership Center than the…

I think the American people do, in fact, think this Government spends a lot of money it does not need to spend.

We have passed some budgets, but we have not followed our budgets.

I am concerned about that.

I think Congress is timid to challenge the Executive, which I have expressed concern about for some time.

Higher public debt leads to lower investment, slower transitional growth or recovery from a recession, and a lower long-term level of output. Debt is bad for growth.