Today, it is my hope to learn what steps are being taken to make sports participation safer for all athletes.

I am not advocating for an end to sports as we know it, or maybe not exactly as we know it right now, but I also feel strongly that 300,000 head injuries per year are too many to overlook.

we want to better understand the innovations being made by sports leagues, equipment manufacturers, and the medical community to make all sports safer.

I appreciate you calling to say you wanted me to come back to extend this hearing by another 5 minutes.

the Department of Defense is going to become a better financial steward, better fiscal steward of their operation.

Did we get a good gift basket from Russia and China and India and Pakistan?

Was it a success?

I appreciate you clarifying that, because I think it's important for us to be able to understand that.

Is forever now 20 years? Is that the mark that we're going to go by?

We continue to condemn Russia's annexation of Crimea and military intimidation of Ukraine.

These are voluntary standards, is my understanding. These four countries that I mentioned, wouldn't even sign onto voluntary standards?

The U.S. Government position remains that Syria's facilities must be physically destroyed so they cannot be used in the future to reconstitute a chemical weapons program.

Our special operators are engaged in more than 70 countries at any given time and are often our first line of defense against an evolving and increasingly dangerous terrorist threat.

U.S. superiority can no longer be taken for granted.

We expect the Syrian Government to comply fully with its responsibilities under UNSCR 2118.

Russia's action in Ukraine has profound implications for the integrity of the nuclear non-proliferation regime.

As instability and violence spreads across the Middle East and North Africa, terrorist groups like al Qaeda are taking advantage of that chaos.

Demand for these elite troops continues to far exceed supply, placing enormous strain on the readiness of the force.