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As you noted, we were twice the victims of cyber-espionage, which included the indictment of members of the Chinese military.

We can't be restricting our most rigorous mental health assessments to the deployment cycle.

I believe that the government needs to be an effective steward of the taxpayer dollar.

I think it is important to ensure we are investing in our national labs. I think they are extraordinarily critical.

I am a strong supporter of modernizing all three legs of the nuclear triad.

This is not only an important issue to me but to national security.

In light of how critical all of those are and the budget challenges that we have as well, now more than ever we need to be sharing information, services, and parts across the Services to control cost and risk in this undertaking.

I cannot sit in front of the Senate, I cannot sit in front of Congress, I cannot sit in front of the President and say, yes, sir, because of that threat, we do not need this capability because the threat exists.

They are closing in. I think we are still ahead.

I could not agree more with you.

The administration needs to have a clear vision and a comprehensive strategy.

I want to make sure that we have a plan in place to protect those people in those regions that we have stood with.

I have great fears of seeing history repeat itself in some ways that we simply head out, and the second we do, ISIS comes back in.

I want to thank you all of you for your implementation of the Sexton Act requirements regarding military suicide.

We do not want to buy the same real estate twice.

It is my understanding that the platform transition that we are looking for requires a strategic basing action.

I think the Congress, and you particularly, have been very helpful.

I appreciate all the work you've done on addressing military suicide.