Richard Shelby: “It would put a lot of power in bureaucrats, would it not?”

And let's not forget China as it continues to build military capability and capacity at an unprecedented pace.

on Roy Blunt, I first met him when he was a whip in the House. We had some kind of conference going, and I thought: My gosh, he can count votes. He is the whip. He can count votes in the conference, too, and so forth. And then, when he…

With inflation at the highest levels we've seen in 40 years, the request represents a cut from the 2022 level.

a lot of untrained men in this circumstance might be called into training and exercises that they aren't prepared for