Why do you believe the U.S. needs more submarines?

DOD works very closely with its interagency partners to ensure that it is building and implementing a whole-of-government approach to cybersecurity.

Thank you Mr. Chairman. This afternoon, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is holding a follow-up hearing.

I want to address my remarks to Ms. Flanz and Ms. Lerner, but I do want to thank the whistleblowers for bringing your individual cases.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you to our witnesses for being with us today.

It takes real courage to put your careers at risk for coming forward and calling attention to these problems and concerns.

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if you want to actually change the culture, you have to change the view, not just it is the first step that we will take care of whistleblowers and treat them fairly, but that something will actually happen to those employees who enter…

What is the procedure for a disciplinary proceeding to set the example?

The VA and Congress must work together to end this culture of fear and retaliation.

For the record, I would like to make a request that the members of this committee receive a copy of that audit in April 2015 when that becomes available.

on April 1st, the President declared a national emergency to deal with malicious foreign cyber activities, and authorized sanctions against anyone who uses cyber activities to threaten our national security, foreign policy, financial…

To what extent will global conditions have to change for the worse in order to trigger a reassessment of the proposed force structure reductions?

The downward ramps for both the Marine Corps (20,000 in 2 years) and Army (47,000 in 4 years) are very steep.

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