Richard Shelby: “at the proper time I will urge adoption of the amendment, but I think Senator Sarbanes wishes to speak. The PRESIDING…”

In a fiscal environment with 8.5 percent inflation, the Department's budget request equates to a cut to our national defense at a time of unprecedented security risks.

As Senator Shelby at our Senate testimony hearing last March pointed out to us, we must maintain what we have before we can build new, and I think he hits the mark head-on.

Iran continues its own pursuit of a nuclear weapon, while also arming radical militia groups across the Middle East.

Regrettably, this was all predictable and avoidable.