Thank each of you for your service and most especially the service of the extraordinary men and women under your command.

I deeply appreciate both of your views on both submarines and the JSF because I strongly share the commitment to those programs.

I want to commend the Air Force on a very well-structured request for proposal (RFP) that emphasized the best capability and the lowest operating cost for the taxpayers.

I think the BRAC process has shown itself to be cost-ineffective rather than a means of saving money.

My hope is that sequestration has no effect on the submarine program, because I think it ought to be clearly excepted from any of those cuts.

I think it also undermines the credibility of the convening authority to make prosecutorial decisions in the first place.

I think the submarine program, as you and the Secretary observed, is absolutely essential to our continued undersea superiority, which in turn is vital to our national security.

Legislatures are not required to solve all of the problem it wants. They can take incremental steps towards solving the problem.

we are choosing to light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

This time is different. This time we will do something. And the reason it is different is that Newtown changed America.

We do not have enough research on gun violence in this country.

I think it would require some changes in legislation.

I want to begin by thanking you, Madam Chairman, for your courage over many years, your consistent advocacy for this assault weapon ban.

I think America is on our side on this issue because America knows this time is different.

The Affordable Care Act was really two pieces of legislation, one that extended coverage to many uninsured Americans, another that attempted to initiate very important reforms in the delivery of health care.

It is true that we are seeing slowdowns in the overall cost of care, the rate of increase in the overall cost of care and in Medicare. I think it is a little premature to declare victory.

Is 20 babies enough to say these implements should not be so easily distributed?

Restrictions on the manufacture and sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines and assault weapons are also consistent with the Second Amendment.

I hope it is continued constructively with that comment and helping to prevent gun violence and the kind of massacre that we saw in Newtown.

The point is those checks work, and if we can extend them to the gun shows, we can keep guns out of the hands of criminals as well as the criminally insane.

When I went to the Sandy Hook fire house on the day of the shooting within hours of its occurrence, I went as a public official, but what I saw was through the eyes of a parent.

I think we've all been through this before. You get the situation where--Senator Thune and I are working on this--that--called cybersecurity, when it's the greatest national security threat, it is greatly in advance of terrorism of 11--you…

the fact is, Chief Flynn, I would agree with you totally that what we see in our Nation is mass murder committed as a result of gun violence.

Nobody in law enforcement ever thinks we are doing enough.

I still remember Richard Darman. Do you remember Richard Darman? Yes. He was head of OMB under Ronald Reagan, and he came and testified for the Finance Committee, and he went into sort of a seclusion for a week before he testified, and he…