John Garamendi

We are intensely interested in your success. And you should recognize that our interest is one of cooperation, or whatever else might be necessary, okay?

Chairman, Subcommittee on Readiness

Mr. Garamendi. Mr. Wilson, thank you for raising the F-35.

There was a billion dollars of unused money in the Department of Defense 2 months ago.

I was looking to trying to put $50 million into the appropriation bill to fund this program.

It has not been funded. It is in appropriation.

Last year, in our wisdom, we created a program called--section 846 of the, I think, 2019 NDAA.

Good morning. We will now call the Readiness Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee to order.

Nature has a way of also prioritizing.

Thank you for making this an issue in the last NDAA.

Let's see here. So today's witnesses oversee a diverse set of programs that are all of great interest to this committee.

This issue will go long, long beyond this Congress, should the President be allowed to literally appropriate money using an emergency declaration.

The Constitution was written in such a way as to say that only Congress can appropriate money.

I think the use of the word 'we need' is exactly what is in contention here.

I have got one more thing, and that is an ongoing question.

Thank you for joining us, and thank you for making this an issue in the last NDAA.

As promised at our first hearing, this issue of energy resiliency and energy conservation will be a continuing theme that we will be hitting upon.

This problem can only be solved if the installation commander is held accountable.

As I promised in our previous hearings, we are going to keep coming back to this. I am pleased that you are making progress on all of the issues.

We obviously share many of the same concerns.

We need to attend to that immediately. The long-term threat, missile defense and so forth, are also out there.

I think the use of the word ``we need'' is exactly what is in contention here.

So we all mourn her loss.

We do pay attention to polar security cutters.

The unhealthy and unsanitary living conditions that they were experiencing in the privatized military housing