I hope you will extend, on behalf of the committee, our gratitude to the men and women of the Air Force and their families for the many sacrifices that they have made on our behalf.

What did the Florida Adjutant General say to you about what a 1,000 cut in Florida from a 12,000 strength would do with hurricane season approaching?

Can you please describe the difference in your ability to conduct aerial surveillance and command and control if the Navy is not allowed to procure all five E-2Ds?

Why does the Navy estimate a facility at Mayport Naval Air Station would cost almost five times as much as the facility built in Virginia?

Did the Florida Guard argue that there are other States that have a much larger Guard that do not have the threats and therefore there ought to be a reallocation among the States as to the actual threats?

Any pressure, I think, that our country could put on their country to start to treat their people decently and to start to step back from the road that they are on would be very helpful to some very wonderful people in Venezuela.

This is just an immediate step, but full sequestration takes us back to even worse cuts, and it will have an impact on our response times.

I hope we are coming after them, because they've had it both ways. They kill their own people, they allow the free conduct of narcotraffic, and, at the same time, they love to have their condominiums and bank accounts in Miami. So, I can…

Unless there's some type of a miracle, that either the opposition or the Maduro Government pulls out, they are going down a catastrophic hole, in terms of economics, in terms of democracy and things like that.

I'm pleased to see the Navy's P-8 Maritime Reconnaissance plane being put to use in the Pacific.

The future sequestration cuts would clearly diminish our capacity to be in a state of readiness as we want to meet the world's threats.

We've watched it carefully, and I think your insights are most valuable.