Tom Cotton

The biggest challenge our defense establishment faces is one of institutional inertia.

I commend Chairman Cotton, Senator King, and the rest of the Airland Subcommittee for beginning this conversation.

I think we can all agree that we would not like to see an infusion of taxpayer cash repeatedly into the program.

It is $25 billion in debt. And while the program does help some Americans with moderate incomes, as well as farmers, it also takes money from working-class Americans to subsidize beach homes for the rich.

We will not rest. We will bear any burden to find them and bring them home.

The Budget Control Act must be repealed.

I think what is important about the Chinese capability is that is in that category of anti-access/area denial...

The INF Treaty gives China a lethal advantage over American forces in the Pacific.

A decade from now, ALCMs will not be able to penetrate Russian air defenses, and, therefore, there is an urgency to their replacement.

If Vladimir Putin wanted, he could hold United States troops in Europe at risk with nuclear-armed cruise missiles.

The Administration has determined that Russia is in violation of certain provisions of the Open Skies Treaty.

I would urge all the Democrats and all the Republicans on this committee to work together to do so in the Senate itself.

The Budget Control Act is not the Constitution, and the 112th Congress was not the Constitutional Convention. We should simply repeal it.

I think the President's Budget is inadequate to the threats that we face.

We are not just deploying troops there for the benefit of those nations but for the very good training that our troops receive there as well.

I think the way to go is rotational for the brigade combat team, but I am willing to take a good look at it.

I am encouraged by the heel-to-toe deployments we have seen of armored Brigate Combat Teams as part of the initiative.

I want to encourage you to continue to try to address them and resolve them at the speed that our warfighters need.

If the program is not working, it does not seem... that we should be accelerating more money into that program.

The political implications of these contracts in members' districts are a very low priority compared to those for me.

My first priority is delivering functional systems to our warfighters on the front lines.

President Trump promised to reverse those policies.

We stood largely idly by during the Crimea invasion and did not offer defensive weapons.

President Obama said he would have more flexibility on ballistic missile defense after his election.

The Obama administration in 2009 reset relations with Russia 6 months after it invaded Georgia.