That should disturb all of us.
Thank you, Chairman McCain, Ranking Member Reed, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for this invitation to appear before you ...
I do not believe that most observers would agree that America is 21 percent safer.
The world order that America has led for seven decades, which has benefited our people most of all, is now under unprecedented strain.
Congress should be leading on finding savings, not just adding dollars to our defense budget.
As Chairman McCain has noted in his just-released White Paper, the combined effects of nearly $1.5 trillion of cuts over a decade have been ...
As President Trump assumes the awesome responsibilities of his office, he has inherited a world on fire and a U.S. military weakened by year...
Chairman McCain himself has called these overruns absolutely outrageous.
Too many Americans seem to have forgotten that our world order is not self-sustaining.
The epitome of this forgetfulness is the Budget Control Act of 2011, which cut and arbitrarily capped defense spending for a decade.
I commend President Trump for talking about the cost of the F-35, and I hope that we can do something about that.