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America's competition with China is an increasing challenge, but it is not a new one.

America is only as strong abroad as we are at home, including the innovation and technology we can protect.

I share the Chair's determination to keep proceeding, and I look forward to beginning subcommittee markups in June.

Our focus with regard to our military competition with China must remain on deterrence.

Competition with China occurs in every domain, from the United Nations to cyberspace to Africa.

Think of yourself as the customer is a good way to approach something like this.

What I would like to get from you are some thoughts about how we can make this a warmer handoff, if you will.

Ultimately it has got to work. And if it does not work, the people who we are contracting with should not get paid.

If you do not have a destination, you will never get there.

Yes, handing a veteran a 300-page form is not the answer.

It seems to me even though we have made great progress we are still not there.

There ought to be a cost to that.

My vision is, frankly, someone meeting the veteran at the airport saying, 'Welcome home. Here are some resources.'

We cannot settle for CRs (continuing resolutions) that freeze our progress, result in year-over-year funding cuts.

I think we have a shared understanding that the solution here must be an all-of-Government approach.

The Chinese Communist Party does not govern by CRs, and they do not govern by cuts, and we cannot either.

I am having trouble squaring the Administration's national security strategy with a budget request that proposes to increase non-defense spending by 8.5 percent, while defense spending would increase at a rate of 3.3 percent.

Are you concerned about the fact that the weapons that the Americans gave to the Security Forces could now be turned against us and our Western allies in a terrorist attack?