We are going to write a new NDAA.

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.

Mr. Secretary, will you commit to review and modify the Federal Highway Administration's 1983 nationwide waiver exempting all 'manufactured products' from 'Buy America' requirements?

So, yes, we are going to be looking at this all the way through.

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.

You really are on top of all of these issues.

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.

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.

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.