Please don't deny us this moment.
There is no question--as a matter of both principle and of national security--that the Chief of the National Guard Bureau should be elevated...
I hope that today's hearing will lead to swift action on this important legislation.
We absolutely do not need to go to China.
It seems to me you get back to the source. If we are writing the specs, who is following up?
Who writes the specs? I mean, does the Government? I am sure we have spec writers. Right?
So we are still doing business with the people that we know that are making inferior products that could affect our service people.
Why would DOD not have an internal audit asking for this?
It's a shame that this Nation doesn't have an energy policy.
Let me ask you hypothetically then. If a country that has an investment needs the product that comes from, let's say the LNG, and they want ...
Would the Department of Energy have the data to give me an answer on that?
Do you not believe if we had an energy policy that used all of our resources that we could be energy independent?
How is gas traded? What's the pricing? I mean, how is gas priced?
Do you know how much investment from foreign countries that we have right now just in a natural gas play?
You know we have enough resources, correct?
Do you believe that the United States could become energy independent with all the new resources that we're finding?
This is not rocket science. Basically I do not know if they have had an original idea or brought a product to market that would benefit mank...
We're not going to privatize the Marine Corps. We're not going to privatize the National Park Service.
