General Mattis said it better than anybody: if you cut the State Department's operational budget you need to buy me more ammo.

We also doubled the standard deduction.

In fact, they recently said that tax reductions for small businesses will increase after-tax returns on investment and boost investment by pass-through businesses.

The 2019 budget proposal from the administration will not make it. We are going to kill it and replace it with something that makes more sense.

If you send a rescission package over here from the House that guts the State Department, we are going to kill that, too.

The answer is yes. Okay.

To hold Syria, somebody has to get in on the ground and make sure the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) doesn't come back, do you agree with that?

Another part that came from a bipartisan coalition of Senators--from Senator Coons to Senator Booker to myself, all supportive of the Investing in Opportunity Act, which was a part of the tax package--provided Opportunity Zones to be…

We doubled the Child Tax Credit and expanded its refundability--again, another bipartisan proposal my colleagues could never seem to get passed into law.

Opportunity Zones, established in a measure proposed by Senator Scott, draw investment to Americans in impoverished regions of the country.

We made sure the law creates proper incentives. We made our international tax system a territorial one, ensuring that American companies are more competitive overseas and encouraging them to bring earnings and investments back home.

Our goals on tax reform last year were many. One was to spur economic growth. We did that; the last couple of quarters we were significantly higher than we saw in the last decade.

Every dollar that you provide I will squeeze and make it go as far as it possibly can to serve our interests.

I support them a hundred percent on military funding increases, but I just want the subcommittee to know that, as a Republican, I believe that soft power, for lack of a better term, is the key to winning the war as much as hard power.

So to make sure that ISIS doesn't come back in the area that they used to occupy you are going to need not only security, you are going to need a police force and army, right?

I have been told there are more displaced people than any time since World War II.

Restore American competitiveness--moving from 35 percent to 21 percent provides our companies with a greater opportunity to succeed in a global economy.

Create jobs--since the passage of the tax reform act, we have seen over 600,000 jobs created put upward pressure on wages.