John McCain

Should you be in your job?

Seventeen years, $700 million of taxpayers' money has been sunk into the Remote Multi-Mission Vehicle.

If we had been told it was $478 million and 12 years late for some of the programs, I do not think that this committee and the Congress of the United States would have approved it.

The manufacturer is being held accountable for these corrective actions.

I believe that some of the problems we are experiencing now with LCS vessels is because we got too far in front of ourselves by trying to deploy ships before they were ready to deploy.

Saying that we will attain the 50 percent deployment availability goal for LCS because that is what we need to make the Optimized Fleet Response Plan achievable rings a little hollow with me.

I recommend the committee waive the seven-day rule in order to permit the confirmation of the nomination of these officers before the Senate adjourns the 114th Congress, thank God.

Facts are stubborn things.

It is outrageous. OK? Let us do it.

Right now, it takes 18 months--right?--to receive the clearance, so that you can be employed by the Border Patrol. Right?

Things are not improving, as far as manufactured Mexican heroin is concerned. It is an epidemic.

I believe it is cost-effective and the right thing to do, given that our addiction to drugs fuels so much of the lawlessness and instability in that region.

Comprehensive immigration reform would provide a 5.4-percent boost in gross domestic product (GDP).

Helping vulnerable people is part of our moral fabric as a country.

Why is it that a veteran cannot immediately be hired if that veteran has already gone through all of the screening?

I believe comprehensive immigration reform can also be a critical force multiplier.

We cannot do it for you. You have to do it. But, we have an obligation to help, because we are complicit in your misery.

I just do not think we strengthen our country by ignoring the contributions of immigrants or by turning our backs on refugees.

We also need to remain clear-eyed about some of the other real risks and real solutions.

If we do not have strong borders, we have a real problem.

There is a requirement to use drones. Right now, drones are flying out of Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and you are not coordinating with them, which is crazy.

Comprehensive immigration reform would create legal channels for migration and 'shrink the haystack' of unauthorized travelers.

We must work hard to meet both our security challenges as a Nation and our moral imperatives.

We are complicit in their misery... by virtue of our addiction to drugs.

I want to thank the witnesses for appearing. And I know it is unusual for Ms. Barna and Ms. Bilodeau to be before this committee, but it's also the first time that I have seen decisions of this magnitude made at the level that they…