Thanks for the 2-year budget.

What we have now does not make sense, so we need to do something different.

the imbalance between spending and revenue that is built into current law and policy is projected to lead to continued growth of debt held by the public as a share of GDP. This situation--in which debt grows faster than GDP--means the…

the debt limit, again, is a raw number, and no smart fiscal manager uses a raw number as a check.

I do not think you can deal with a balance sheet if you just put, you know, a blindfold on one eye and say, 'I am just going to look at one-half of the balance sheet.'

Eighty percent of the deficit effect of the act we passed at year-end 2015 was on the tax expenditure side, not on the spending side.

It is good to have you with us.

Shouldn't we treat a tax expenditure in the same way we treat a program expenditure?

They do more joint military exercises with the United States than with any other Nation.

We saw some real opportunities.

Would it be valuable if the Senate ratified the Law of the Sea Convention, again, in terms of our posture in the region?

If Aleppo then falls into the hands--back into the hands of Assad, estimates are, we could see another 500,000 refugees show up in Turkey, which would just be devastating, for many reasons.

There will never be a Turkey in Europe until Europe comes to grip with a sense of national identity.

I think it actually is an imperative for us to remain very engaged with Ankara.

I think we need to stay focused on those fundamental pieces. That is going to take quite a while.

There is a high correlation between individuals placing holds who then also are out, blasting the administration for not showing leadership in the world.

My time is up, but Chairman Johnson did a good job in terms of taking some ideas that we had from the intel community.

Thank you for holding this important hearing.