Mike Rogers: “When you testified, you stated the Army Requirements Oversight Council was meeting that week to establish an actual…”

supports modernization and fundamentally reforms defense acquisition by cutting red tape, eliminating bureaucratic hurdles, and encouraging innovation.

The defense spending boost in the reconciliation bill is needed to restore American deterrence, revitalize the defense industrial base, and modernize our military.

I urge my colleagues to support the en bloc package, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, years of chronic underinvestment in our national security have shattered American deterrence. It has allowed our adversaries to threaten and challenge us in new and unprecedented ways. That ends today because, with the passage…