Richard Shelby: “Under Chairman Gensler's watch, customers of MF Global had $1.6 billion of funds improperly taken from their accounts.”

We have got to get our arms, one, around the inflation first, and then try to boost our defense capabilities in a dangerous world.

A complex and evolving security environment requires a serious commitment to our national defense.

Regrettably, this was all predictable and avoidable.

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.