Michael Waltz

And on the flip side, as I hear from my constituents who don't want their kids to join if, for example, they go to the Air Force Academy and they are told in their orientation, 'Don't say, 'mom and dad'; say, 'parent.' Don't say…

Parents aren't going to want their kids to join a military if they are a family of color if they believe it is overrun with White supremacy;

I agree with you that a narrative about service is really at the heart of the issue here.

I am just curious when you were last at Nellis and Creech, and what you think of the housing situation there.

I agree with your call to national service.

More than 80,000 Americans with fentanyl every year, creating a crisis at our border.

In 2022 Russia released its new Maritime Doctrine prioritizing the Arctic, pledging to protect these Waters 'by all means'.

This was a failure at leadership, at the most senior levels of the State Department and the White House.

I have also never been more disgusted with my own government. This was a callous, cold-hearted, incompetent episode on the part of this Administration.

I think, you know, as we are patting ourselves on the back, providing an ally the arms they need to defend themselves if we have decided it is within our interests after entire cities and whole regions have been devastated, probably isn't…

So, it is safe to say deterrence failed in this case?

According to DOD's own reporting, many facilities on military installations are in poor or failing condition.

We shouldn't be buying it from people who don't share our interests or our values.

If it takes us 12, 18, 24 months to do it, then that is better than sending people who don't share our interests or our values U.S. tax dollars.

I refuse to believe that with all of the great companies in this country and with all of the great minds at Georgia Tech, MIT, and everywhere else in this country, that we in this country cannot develop better technology than the Chinese…

At the end of the day, I think our priority should be on developing and implementing the mostly lethal capabilities for deterrence and to counter China, and if that so happens to have green effects, I think that is completely appropriate.

I was honored to work with him as the ranking member as chairman to show the bipartisanship of these issues.

I am deeply honored to serve as chairman of this impactful subcommittee and lead its crucial work.

There was no such finding by President Biden. Yet the DOD and each Armed Service mandated EUA products from the issuance of their respective mandates in August 2021 through the rescission of the mandates in January 2023.

According to DOD's data, over 8100 service members have been discharged. What impact has the loss of those military members, that talent, that experience had on your service?

10 U.S.C. 1107a prohibits the mandate of an unlicensed emergency use authorization (EUA) product, unless there is an express written authorization by the President.

Secretary Austin's recission memo tells the Services that 'no individuals will be separated solely on the basis of their refusal to receive the covid 19 vaccination if they sought an accommodation based on religious, administrative or…

When these construction factors are taken together with the impact of several Biden executive orders, the overall military construction impact approaches 20 percent cost escalation from last year.

With the Kearsarge amphibious ready group unable to deploy on time to respond to the Ukraine crisis this is particularly concerning.

Applying the Navy process improvement program Performance to Plan has yielded positive gains in reducing days of maintenance delays.