The National Guard has consistently included modernized Humvees among their top priority funding priorities.

I want to thank the committee for their generous support in fiscal year 2013 and fiscal year 2014.

I think you perhaps saw that. I mean, that is pretty alarming.

Does it demonstrate it is time for us to move ahead promptly more with a joint Air Force-NASA funding?

Is a US hypersonic weapon considered critical to our strategic posture?

Your report on SNAP retailers raise concerns about the Food and Nutrition Services ability to effectively carry out oversight and enforcement activities related to fraud.

We take our security and our lockup procedures very, very seriously, and the National Ag Statistics Service has, over the years, improved their approaches towards security.

The budget proposes $75 million in new funding to create three new innovative institutes.

You mentioned in your testimony that various statistics have been used to measure the increase of CFTC's responsibilities.

We are going to need to move on.

I think there is a recognition at the Department that this is a significant issue.

We want to provide the resources that you need, but at the same time we want to make sure that we are responsible to the taxpayers.