"I would argue that if the institutions are so incredibly important that people around this dais would nominate their best and brightest young men and women to go there that they deserve to not be neglected from a recapitalization standpoint."
"I will get off my high horse on it and beg and plead with my colleagues to look for solutions to this problem."
"I expect that maybe this year we are going to go right back into that pattern of waiting until the last minute to do something."
"I hope the Congress is paying attention."
"the 2-year budget, has been--was proven effective, was it not, to create certainty?"
"I have strong concerns about how the approach by the Department of Defense in this arena seems to be geared toward, you know, producing a desired outcome with a specific vendor."
"Well, all I will say, and I will leave the subject, is that it is clear that multivendor cloud environments are widely used, widely used by large organizations, for a simple reason: They increase comp..."
"it is a constitutional imperative to provide for the common defense."
"We are here to discuss discretionary caps, but this conversation - while important - is a waste of time without a plan to address the true drivers of out-of-control deficits and debt."
"Stable funding allows our military members to plan and meet growing needs and threats."
"The discretionary caps imposed since 2011 have had value. They still have value today, and should be extended and increased gradually."