Richard Shelby: “Our Nation's debt, as the Chairman has alluded to, is on an unsustainable path. We all know this.”

A lot of people, including this Senator, believe that the request is not enough considering the problems in the world.

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.

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

I remain concerned that the Air Force budget request is insufficient considering the needed modernization across the inventory with a rapidly evolving threat.