It is problematic that there is no money in the whole five-year plan.
The fiscal year 2017 MDA budget request is $300 million below what the President anticipated last year in the 2016 5-year budget.
There is a growing feeling that our allies need to contribute more to the mutual defense of what used to be called, I guess, the free world.
When I have asked questions for the last decade and others have, they say the Europeans are getting better and they are going to do better.
I think our allies and our adversaries may get the wrong impression about the willingness and capability of the United States to respond.
It goes beyond even money. It goes beyond how do you have a right to demand that we defend Europe when Russia is not on our border?
It would please me if Alabama came home.
We wish that things were continuing to go down, like we hoped and saw for quite a number of years.
General Klotz, a modernized weapon would be more effective, more secure and safe.
If I were running the world, I'd say, 'I want to build bombs, and I don't want to build buildings.'
Well, sometimes it has to be done, and it has to be spent, but--just briefly, again, so the 5.2 billion was not in the last year's FYDP.