I guess the question is why would you go forward until you completely made sure it was somewhat filtered at least?

Last year, I offered an amendment to the Senate Financial Services bill that was adopted by voice vote based on a bill that I and Senator Heitkamp introduced.

Maybe our society should pay them the respect they deserve then and honor their service and not attach any stigma to what they do since they are keeping us safe in our beds at night.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Commissioner, for being here. We appreciate your testimony very, very much.

Mandating a higher end-strength without increasing funding would mean a hollow force unless you borrowed more money from modernization to pay for readiness.

Community banks did not cause the financial crisis, yet they have been affected during the implementation of Dodd-Frank.

The focus on these three priorities could put at risk modernization in future years.

Before this Congress considers moving forward with mandates on end strength, we need to consider how we might pay for that to ensure both readiness and modernization.

Each budget has under-resourced the military.

Now we will go into a second round of questions.

Thank you very much for your service. We appreciate everything you do for our country.

You need 1,100 to do the mission. You need 300 to build up enough dwell time, for a total of 1,400.

Thank you, gentlemen, for your testimony here today, and also for your long service to our country.

I have heard a lot from commanders around the world in different combatant commands in the different services about diminishing weapon stockpiles.

Thank you very much for a productive conversation. Most importantly, thanks for your service to our country.

The Director of National Intelligence testified last year that the global threat environment was as severe as he had ever seen it in 45 years.

I mean, it works fine if you are an O4 NMI and you live it day in and day out.

Just 1 week less to learn to be a repairman for one of those aircraft as opposed to being an operator.