Susan Davis

As we have heard repeatedly, this past weekend, Omar Mateen walked into a nightclub that had been a fixture of Orlando's LGBT community for over a decade and opened fire, killing 49 people and wounding dozens more. This tragedy was many…

I want to thank Dr. Heck and the committee staff for working in a bipartisan manner to develop this bill and particularly recognize Chairman Thornberry and Ranking Member Smith for their leadership during this process. The bill includes…

The Department of Defense [DOD] needs fiscal certainty to reliably perform critical missions and to maintain lasting superiority.

The President's budget request centers on five key challenges: Deterring aggressive behavior on the part of a resurgent Russia and a rising China; containing the dangerous unpredictable North Korean regime; neutralizing Iran's malign…

The threats, as the chairman has noted, we face are real and growing.

The lifeblood of our Navy is our people. And the sailors deserve assets.

I think a lot of people are often thinking of the Marines when they think about that and they want us to keep them safe here at home.

Today I would like to celebrate the beginning of Women's History Month by recognizing a woman from my home State of California, Sally Ride. Sally Ride personifies the Californian and American spirit of exploration and discovery. In 1983…

We look forward to Ranking Member Smith returning, hopefully within a few weeks, absolutely.

Do you think we are going to see some differences as well in terms of, you know, really acknowledging the life balance issues that our men and women need in order to stay in the service and to be able to engage for the long haul?

I feel like we have asked the same question many different ways, but we really feel a responsibility to help and get this right.

We also know that a number of our military providers also moonlight for training.

I also want to acknowledge and thank the chairman for mentioning the contribution to civilian medicine that our armed services have made.

Nothing that we have to tell you, medical readiness is the foundation for which the military services' medical systems are built.

This hearing should afford us the opportunity to hear a variety of perspectives on medical readiness.

I am going to ask you to do something that is kind of difficult.

Thank you for being here. I want to just very, very briefly mention, just to thank you, the department, I think they are following through on a letter that was received regarding increasing diversity among our schools, and we are very…

We must continue to lead in deterring Russian aggression and, if necessary, in concert with our partners--but our first priority has to be to prevent conflict.

I am paying more for my health care, but what do I get in return?

Our goal is to find the most appropriate way to reform the military healthcare benefit in order to provide the best, the most cost-effective benefit, while maintaining, of course, the appropriate level of medical readiness for the force.

I also want to welcome our witnesses, especially Admiral Bono. I believe that this is your first hearing before our subcommittee in this capacity.

Thank you, Dr. King, for being here and for taking on this critical leadership position.

I just wonder whether you felt that NATO would likely be much more definite about where these tests would be responded to.

Russian nationalism, as we know, has fueled a foreign policy marked by territorial aggression and expeditionary military activities.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I also want to welcome our witnesses, and thank you very much for joining us today.