"So, yes, we are going to be looking at this all the way through."
"We will continue to do that. So we would expect that in your role as Secretary you will make sure that American taxpayer money is spent here in America."
"I've got to tell you how thrilled I was on the fifth day in office when President Biden issued an Executive order that American taxpayer money would be used to buy American-made goods and services."
"If we cannot provide flood insurance for agriculture in all of its various ways, then you are simply going to drive agriculture out of the flood plain."
"Thank you for last year's WRDA. We are going to have a big task this year monitoring the implementation."
"Perhaps you ought to come to the Sacramento Valley and take a look at what you just described."
"I will be interested in having that information."
"The F-35 is a huge problem, and one of the principal problems is that we buy more planes."
"I don't want to have another F-35 fiasco."
"Whatever those ships are, if we are going to maintain, if we are going to hang on to the cruisers, somebody is going to maintain them, and this committee is going to be responsible for that maintenanc..."
"We are going to work very closely with the acquisition committees, including the appropriations, to deal with the ongoing problem."