So sustainment is important, but growth is also important.

If we have affordable battery technology, that fixes the problem.

Canada is a huge friend of ours, a great trading partner, and the fact is that there is water that flows from United States North, we shouldn't be polluting them, and they shouldn't be polluting us.

I have long supported NATO as a stabilizing force in Europe, and if President Putin believed he would shake the alliance with his further assault on Ukraine, he sorely miscalculated.

China is very actively fielding the systems that it thinks will defeat the United States' ability to project power and we have to respond to that.

I want to express my appreciation for all three of you being here today.

This budget proposes eliminating a 102 aircraft. It's going to save $1.2 billion in 2023.

We consider the fiscal year 2023 budget request with great sense of urgency as we face China's rapidly increasing technological capabilities and warfighting capacity.

China's continued military modernization, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, space as a contested domain, as well as numerous threats I cannot talk about here, remind us every day that we have no time to waste.

it's not acceptable and it may be a long ways away from this country, but we cannot...allow that to continue

Yes, sir. In the budget request we fund to IOC, we'll begin launching satellites the end of 2024-early 2025 and reach IOC in 2027.

China remains a pacing threat and continues to be the focus as we modernize our military forces.

As a result, cost savings don't materialize and we risk creating capability gaps.

when Russia entered Ukraine in an unprovoked attack, this is exactly the kind of aggression we have to deter

Sir, the Space Force investments are directly in line with the National Defense Strategy and directly in line with being able to successfully detect and track the threat that you talked about and that's the foundation of our budget request.

I thank the tremendous chairman of the Freedom Caucus, the tip of the spear for this body, the conscience of the conservative movement here in Washington, D.C. I am proud to stand here with him to be a voice for life today. It is painfully…

If you were to take or destroy the eggs of a sea turtle... that baby will be stripped of all protections in all 50 states under the Democrats bill.

Staffing is a problem. Doctors, nurses.