Richard Shelby: “I think if you put everything on top of the table, Mr. Secretary, people see what they are paying.”

Deterrence requires spending our limited resources on both offensive and defensive weapons.

Putin's actions have created the largest humanitarian crisis in modern Europe while his forces attempt to consolidate their territorial gains in eastern Ukraine.

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.

Regrettably, this was all predictable and avoidable.