This is a family affair, and not only you but your families that for many, many years have been so faithful.

Thank you all for being here. We appreciate the great work that you do ensuring the services not only have the resources to accomplish the mission but also taking care of the men and women that serve and sacrifice and their families.

I want to highlight the domestic availability of ingredients necessary to manufacture smokeless gunpowder including nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin, and acid production.

Will you be able to in the next year or two, then be able to give us good data, working with your partners as to the positive effect that this is going to have?

So, it is a win-win; very good.

I want to thank my good friend from North Dakota Senator Hoeven for his leadership on this issue. Under normal circumstances, we would have been celebrating the passage of a new farm bill by now. Unfortunately, we are not there yet, and…

Thank you all for being here, we appreciate your hard work in keeping our Nation safe, but also in keeping--taking care of the men and women that serve, which is so, so very important.

Thank you all for being here, we appreciate your hard work in keeping our Nation safe, but also in keeping--taking care of the men and women that serve, which is so, so very important.

This is a family affair, and not only you but your families that for many, many years have been so faithful.

Secretary Kendall, you continue to emphasize the need for our investments to meet China's escalating military threats head on.

The Defense Industrial Base in Camden, Arkansas, remains at the forefront of critical munitions production for our National defense.