Thank you.

How will you ensure that the National Guard Pilots are ready to fly when they have to scramble to intercept an enemy aircraft?

Is this being applied now to the contractor personnel as well as the military?

If we get out of our ideological stances here on both sides of Capitol Hill, we can get rid of the sequestration going forward.

U.S. forces will no longer be sized to conduct large-scale, prolonged stability operations.

you must be one of the most frustrated people on the planet, because you know the threat in cyber and here Congress can't get anything done because certain players won't allow the passage of the legislation.

I appreciate that, and that is assuring, even though we might have a cyber attack that would take out electric grids.

What about the Brits? What about the French? Do they have the capabilities of stopping a rogue cyber attack from coming in and suddenly messing up their command and control?

I wish you would look into the fact that your contract could compel contractor training.

Well, after I became chairman, they asked me, the air traffic controllers said this is a skewed study, this isn't right, they didn't ask the right questions.

Is there ever a limit to tax increases?

We could stop that loss, couldn't we? Eighty-five million dollars in loss.

So maybe you could supply the committee with some information on the savings and elimination of the programs at a time when we are trying to save money.

We could eliminate food service. Do you think anyone would starve between here and New York?

tourism is unlawful.

your role is to enforce the law, and tourism is unlawful.

There has been a huge tax increase on the middle class because of the Affordable Care Act.

the penalties, the Supreme Court, whether you or I like it, has said it is a tax on the middle class.