I have been watching this aircraft since 2001 and I've watched the cost overruns now.
Believe me, we acted, as is our responsibility, because of our intense frustration about the lack of progress on this issue.
I don't believe it's the job of the Navy to be involved in building and involved in new technologies.
I will seek to act on amendments on the floor to try to prevent this kind of waste of the taxpayers' dollars.
Our goal is the Nation's security. Those are not always the same.
I want to tell you for sure that until we get that independent assessment there should be no concrete plans made by the Secretary of Defense...
Just to put things in perspective on the F-35 again, we started the program in 2001. The cost estimates for 2,456 aircraft were going to be ...
I want to commend you, Secretary Mabus, for your effort to lead DOD in making energy efficiency and self-reliance such a priority.
The administration is proposing a reduced defense budget at a time when the challenges to our security are arguably more daunting than at an...
Using defense dollars to subsidize new energy technologies is not the Navy's responsibility, nor is it sufficiently related to the Service's...
Cuts to our naval capabilities without a plan to compensate for them puts our goals in the Asia-Pacific region at greater risk.
I think that the violence has continued to increase. It wasn't a tremendous jump this year, but those are unacceptable numbers.
My parting request to the Members of Congress is to sustain the unmatched capability of our Armed Forces, continue to support the incredibly...
Guatemala has declared its second military state of siege to try to deal with the increased violence from Mexican drug cartels operating wit...
What is clear from the testimony this committee has received over the last several weeks from our various regional combatant commanders is t...
So is it your view that we still need to-- and we have improved border security, but we need to take additional steps on the issue of border...
I appreciate courageous decisions. I think we ought to have an assessment as to whether we are succeeding or failing.
I want to thank Congress and the distinguished members of this committee, especially Senators Levin and McCain, for your continued support t...
