"one of the big failures I think of this administration is when you look at where we are on economic growth"
"Do you think if we removed one or two BCTs from Alaska, do you think that would show that we're committed to a rebalance or undermine our rebalance commitment?"
"the recent National Security Strategy document from the White House lists, I believe, climate change if--as one of the top, if not the top, national security threat, relative to, say, Iran gaining nuc..."
"I would love to get rid of it in the English language."
"The Secretary of State yesterday talked about, 'actually living in a period of less daily threats to American and people in the world normally.'"
"The President, himself, in the State of the Union, talked about the crisis of 9/11 and everything has passed."
"I think that your service, particularly providing real, accurate threat assessments to not only the Congress, but to the American people, the administration, is absolutely, fundamentally critical if w..."
"there are a couple things going on here that give a sense of frustration from the Members."
"We proudly wear the title of the State that has the most veterans per capita of any State in the country."
"We do not want the backlog to be kind of a whack-a-mole issue."
"Again, another issue with this Administration I have a problem with is taking action where you have no legal authority under the Constitution."