Political Quotes

“I would like to thank the distinguished chairman of the House Armed Services Committee for his leadership in bringing what I think is a very good NDAA bill to the floor. This is the 55th consecutive NDAA. This is not an easy bill to manage. We have a critical set of funding challenges as the administration's budget submission for FY 2017 broke the deal negotiated in 2015 to achieve the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. Because of this failure, we in Congress must exercise our constitutional duty to provide for the men and women in uniform and we must provide much-needed oversight of the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. This bill includes a number of key provisions that were authored by the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces that I lead, including: Consolidating and strengthening the Air Force's organization regarding our nuclear command and control and missile warning systems; It enhances the authority for the Department of Defense and, also, the Department of Energy to mitigate threats from unmanned aircraft at its most sensitive nuclear facilities; It prohibits the DOE funding for Russia and for Secretary Kerry's unilateral disarmament initiative concerning retired U.S.…”