John McCain

General Welsh, are you aware of any restrictions to the current F-16 pilot training syllabus at Luke AFB that prevents the Air Force from conducting full spectrum operations training?

Why do you believe moving the two F-16 squadrons to Holloman AFB is the best move for the Air Force pilot training mission?

General Welsh, if the Air Force decides to station three F-35 squadrons at Luke AFB for now, could the base also support the F-16 squadrons currently operating there in existing facilities?

The reason why I keep raising this issue with you and why I feel so strongly about it is that every time I have been there and had candid conversations with our commanders at literally all levels, they believe that we need to keep the…

What is your view on the need for the Air Force to increase the number of its civilian employees, even in the face of reductions in force structure and uniformed personnel throughout DOD?

Some of us, as I say, who have been observing this for a long, long time and made many, many visits and many, many briefings are deeply concerned.

If we cannot accomplish the mission, I am not sure why we should stay, and that is something that I think a lot of us have to wrestle with.

Do you believe that any strategy in Afghanistan can be successful while militants continue to enjoy safe haven in Pakistan?

In your view, would the result of realignment of compensation for the Guard result in increasing or decreasing the cost of Guard personnel?

If confirmed, would you help ensure that all Reserve components gets a fair share of this congressionally-provided funding?

There is a very serious problem with corruption particularly in these small Central American countries.

All of this can be traced to the flow of illegal drugs into our country.

The effects of sequestration in his words would be catastrophic and damaging to our national security.

If each of you is confirmed, the environment that you would face will be uncertain and potentially volatile.

I agree with Secretary Panetta, as well as Chairman Dempsey, that sequestration would be devastating to DOD.

Most of the drugs that come into America from the south come out of the production fields mostly in Colombia.

While we are winding down combat operations in Afghanistan, we are also facing the most insidious range of threats the country has seen in a long time.

Does this not have a lot to do with the glamorization of the use of drugs?

General Welsh, are you aware of the operational constraints with the air-to-ground ranges at Holloman that will have a detrimental impact on the pilot training syllabus?

If confirmed, would you reexamine this issue?

I hope that you and Dr. Hicks might have an opportunity to go to the refugee camps on the Turkish border and hear from the now 25,000 people who have fled their homes who have been subject to systematic murder, rape, and torture, and you…

The United States has provided roughly $1.5 billion a year for about 3 decades to the Egyptian Government under Mubarak.

What an outrage that is happening in Syria today.

Our intention and our effort was to find out if there were any breaches or possible evidence of breaches of national security.

Right now, the United States and the world are failing the people of Syria.