Richard Shelby: “But we would like to know for the record because we fund all these things.”

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.

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

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

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.