"I have heard a lot of my colleagues talking about how we are just going to do a CR [Continuing Resolution] this year. That would be a complete and total disaster for the United States military, for th..."
"So is this the price that women are expected to pay to serve our Nation in our Marine Corps?"
"I think it is safe to say that the USMC has a problem recruiting and retaining women."
"We have this logical challenge here in terms of, here is what we would like to do, here is how much money we have."
"It was recently brought to my attention that three Active Duty currently serving female USMC aviators in training have been retaliated against for reporting their military sexual trauma."
"Modernization, I believe, is the most critical thing that we need to do to make sure that we have the Joint All-Domain Command and Control."
"It has not been an easy time to be in the positions that you are in. You have both done an outstanding job."
"I think the chairman has done a really good job of pulling those hearings together."
"But sitting here on the Armed Services Committee, let's not kid ourselves about the impact that would have on what is supposed to be our paramount duty to defend this country if we passed a continuing..."
"Eighty-one percent know that to be the case."
"I appreciate the chairman's leadership in getting us started on doing that again this year."
"After years of neglect through decreased appropriations, the IRS has reduced workforce and staff to levels not seen since the 1970s."
"I am disheartened that funding for the very agency that is responsible for generating 96 percent of the funds that support the Federal Government's operations has become such a partisan issue."
"Americans think their data privacy is being protected, and yet there's many examples where it actually is not."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"We need legislation like ours that protects children from having their information harvested."
"If you are going to meet the ridiculous number that was set yesterday by the House, you would have to cut everything else by roughly 50 percent."
"Yesterday, the House voted to go back to the fiscal year 2022 level. All of the Republicans voted for it; no Democrats voted for it."
