A return to the current Budget Control Act caps will pose unmanageable--and unacceptable--risks to our ability to protect America's vital national interests.
John McCain
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John McCain was a prominent American politician and military officer who served as a United States Senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. A member of the Republican Party, McCain was known for his bipartisan approach and commitment to national security. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he was a prisoner of war for over five years, an experience that shaped his political career and views on military and foreign policy.
Chairman McCain proposed the Asia Pacific Stability Initiative, which suggested $7.5 billion in funding for United States forces and their allies in the Asia-Pacific.
TRANSCOM is increasingly challenged by aging and obsolete infrastructure issues that affect equipment, ports, IT systems, and more.
We find ourselves in kind of a strange situation that we and the Russians are allied against the Turks, as far as the Kurds are concerned.
It would not help you any if we slashed the spending for the State Department.
I urge Congress to repeal sequestration and to approve the proposed Defense Department budget.
General Goldfein, based on the differences, if any, between your required and projected primary mission aircraft inventory levels for fighter aircraft for fiscal year 2018, can you characterize the risk the Air Force will assume in meeting…
General McDew, how will TRANSCOM'S job be different when supporting a conflict in a contested environment, and what is TRANSCOM doing to prepare for the different set of challenges this kind of conflict would impose?
In some measurements, maybe you could argue that when we go from control of 72 percent of the country to 52 percent, that is worse than a stalemate.
the DOD Supply Chain Management has been on GAO's High Risk Report since 1990.





