Certainly one's religious freedom should never be curtailed merely because one decides to serve one's country in the military.

I hope that as the Services continue to reassess their force mixture that those sentiments that you expressed very well will continue to be at the forefront of your mind.

Assad has lost all legitimacy and cannot be part of the future of Syria.

I am firmly committed to maintaining Taiwan's self-defense capability.

The Taiwan Relations Act states that 'the United States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services...'

I am pleased by steps that the Air Force has taken to bring sustainment issues into the acquisition process.

While I do not think it is the role of the United States to partition and re-draw borders on the other side of the world, I am also greatly concerned that we could be ineffectively employing our national security resources by continuing to…

How would you define success in this program, and specifically what do you view as the timeline for achieving success?

the P5+1 negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program have passed two deadlines for a final deal

the security along our southern border and the migration crisis were existential threats to U.S. national security

the negative influence of Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) on security and the rule of law

The stated objective of the United States in the conflict against ISIS is to defeat the group and leave a stable, unified government in Iraq and a post-Assad state in Syria.

What will you do to ensure that the weapons and training we supply are not used by or to the advantage of ISIS and other extremist forces that share a common enemy with the groups we are supporting in Syria?

I am concerned about the security of our borders

One of the concerns that I have heard repeatedly from servicemembers in Utah and elsewhere is that they feel inadequately informed by military leadership about some of the persistent threats against themselves.

I want to first join my colleagues in condemning the deplorable attacks against our servicemembers in Chattanooga last week.

In the coming months, I hope our military leaders and Congress can work together and work in an efficient, effective manner to figure out how we can better protect our men and women in uniform from these types of attacks in the future.

The three key tasks in the national security documents that are out there is to assure our allies, deter opponents, and if necessary, fight and win on the ground.