Mike Rogers

The President's budget cuts Army procurement, slashing combat vehicle acquisition by 16 percent and new aircrafts by 22 percent.

The CCP's extraordinary military buildup is certainly concerning.

That is why it is so imperative for us to invest in missile defense and accelerate the next generation interceptor program.

In North Korea, we have a madman who would rather build an illegal nuclear arsenal than feed his starving people.

What is most alarming is the increasingly provocative actions President Xi has taken in recent years.

The Indo-Pacific is home to the greatest threat we have faced in generations.

We must stop being so complacent about our adversaries' growing influence in our hemisphere.

We need to take action to reverse that trend.

The Chinese Communist Party [CCP] has long been expanding its influence in North and South America.

That software has been really valuable to us. I don't know how we would have handled all that input.

Well, because we have had to pull from existing subcommittees to do that.

We cannot let the workload hamper the demands of the members on and off the committee.

The growth of defense spending has outpaced HASC's ability to conduct proper oversight.

Rest assured, we take the expenditure of taxpayer dollars seriously. Every dollar entrusted to us will be used to advance our nation's security interests.

A growing point of contention between Congress and the Biden administration remains over the White House's decision not to designate Russia as a state-sponsor of terrorism.

Let's make sure that that criticism is constructive and we maintain our unity

The Russians are fighting a massive information campaign... they are also trying to break the coalition

This is not a wise use of the resources that are necessary to win the fight

The cost of trying to get the F-16 up and ready to operate in Ukraine... best case scenario, we could maybe get some operational F-16s into Ukraine within a year

There can't be a blank check.

We would like Ukraine to win tomorrow, Russia to be completely pushed out. But I think we also have to be realistic about the challenge that we faced.

The way that coalition was pulled together and the forces that have been given and the weapons that have been given to Ukraine to enable them to be as successful as they have been, combined of course with their unbelievable courage and…

This conflict must end. And the President must be willing to do what it takes to end it with victory.

Since the beginning, the President has been overly worried, in my view, that giving Ukraine what it needs to win would be too escalatory.

These are unprecedented numbers, and it requires an unprecedented level of oversight by this committee and by Congress.