the issue of oversight on both your independence and on your credibility falls on us.

This is going to be an area of continued and massive growth, not just in personnel, but in the ability to house them.

I want to make it clear; I will not back down on this issue until the Pentagon meets this commitment for the good of our nation.

Should the current climate escalate to threatening levels, do you believe the Military Construction requests for the EUCOM AOR will allow for a potential rapid buildup of forces?

To mitigate the risk of a terrorist attack, accident, or natural disaster, the U.S. Navy will homeport an East Coast carrier in Mayport, Florida.

Marco Rubio has an opportunity here to maybe be the Howard Baker, similar to the Watergate investigation, and say what did the president know and when did he know it.

Yet it is my view, and I just visited a facility here recently, that they are both underfunded.

It is not strategically acceptable to base four and soon to be five of our nation's most expensive assets in one location.

The ability of a child to learn is not simply based on the classroom experience.

It strikes me, this whole debate about education, I approach it as someone who went to public school my entire life, who would not have been able to go to college without Pell Grants and student loans.

if a child is living in a dangerous neighborhood in substandard housing in a broken home, this child is going to struggle to learn, unless there are things in place to assist them both inside and outside of school.

We should never do that. That is one of the things that makes us unique.