The President's fiscal year 2014 budget continues to implement the $487 billion in spending reductions over 10 years agreed to in the Budget...
I do not personally believe that you can eliminate the command structure in the military from this process.
If you do not hold people accountable, then you are not going to fix the problem.
It is, I think, a critically important part of our foreign policy, clearly in our national interest.
DOD, I think in many ways, has been bloated. The Defense Department has gotten everything it has wanted the last 10 years and more. We have ...
When you are making friends around the world, when you are developing partners and allies, you are developing the next generation of global ...
I made this decision very reluctantly. I made it reluctantly because I recognize the significant hardship this places on our civilian person...
My understanding is that the Navy has complied with the law and submitted the report to Congress on 1 February 2013.
I believe that it is critical that the U.S. military maintain a robust presence in the region to counter Iran, reassure our partners, and bu...
If confirmed, I would of course place great weight on the assessments and recommendations of combatant commanders...
The enhanced bilateral military relationship we have developed with Russia under the reset is worthwhile.
I support the President's plan to transition full security responsibility to the Afghan National Security Forces by the end of 2014.
The President has said Assad must go, and a democratic political transition should remain our goal.
I do not believe that providing lethal support to the armed opposition at this time would improve the terrible situation in Syria.
I fully supported the withdrawal of all U.S. combat forces from Iraq by December 2011 in accordance with the November 2008 U.S.-Iraq Securit...
A normalized relationship between our two countries, based on mutual respect and mutual interests, is the best way to advance U.S., Iraqi, a...
I support strong missile defense cooperation with Israel, including the deployment of the U.S. TPY-2 radar and operational cooperation and s...
I believe the phased adaptive approach takes the appropriate steps to protect our interests in the region.
