I want to thank you for being here. Thank you for your knowledge on this budget, and I appreciate the opportunity.

at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1994, Mother Teresa famously said: I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child. She went on to say: Any…

Staffing is a problem. Doctors, nurses.

My advice is to be as aggressive as you possibly can.

China is a top pacing threat. This requires our military to be modernized with emphasis on nimble distributed operations.

The Army is attempting to drive transformation to the Army of 2030, recognizing a strategic pivot from a focus on counterterrorism to an army ready to meet the top pacing challenge in China and the acute threat of Russian aggression.

We appreciate your leadership of our Nation's Army and we look forward to discussing with you the Army's priorities for fiscal year 2023.

What power you have.

We want to make sure we fully understand the rationale for and the operational impact of this proposed adjustment.

capitalism doesn't work in situations like that.

We are interested in hearing about the lessons learned from the war in Ukraine from the type of threats you are seeing to how you may adjust soldier training going forward.

what I am for is add more competition to the marketplace.

I want to, first of all, thank you for being here, Secretary Vilsack.

Last week you reasserted your position that you believe it is important to have a larger Army but that you would prefer quality over quantity.

this may be the worst year since then.

rural America has been declining, and is going to continue to decline unless we do some things a little differently.

if we have learned anything over the past few months, it is the importance of supporting ``Made in America'' energy. Since Europe has divested in traditional energy, Vladimir Putin has weaponized it and has Europe over a barrel. This is…

I call up my motion to instruct conferees, which is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Montana [Mr. Daines] moves that the managers on the part of…