Michael Waltz

This administration is keenly focused on combating 'Putin's war machine' funded by the sale of oil/gas.

One of the President's recent invocations of the DPA Title III was intended as a commitment to sustainable development of critical minerals and to show that the United States can lead by example on how best to responsibly produce and…

In February of this year, seventeen former military leaders representing almost 600 years of active duty across the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Army, and Air Force wrote to Secretary Austin outlining the importance of creating a robust and…

I think it is pretty clear now that it doesn't stop the spread.

Seventeen former military leaders representing almost 600 years of active duty... outlined the importance of creating a robust and secure domestic supply chain.

Inflation has racked our economy, currently estimated at 9.1 percent by the Department of Labor.

I think that if a soldier had an exemption to vaccines prior to COVID being--the COVID vaccine mandate, that exemption should be honored.

I fully understand, you know, as a 26-year veteran myself, good order and discipline, and an order is an order.

Thank you, Chairman Garamendi. I, too, want to especially thank all of you, thank our witnesses.

I think for both the Marine Corps and the Army's force design forward, those inter-theater and intra-theater lift capabilities are, from what I have seen and been briefed, wholly insufficient at this point to really--to fully be able to…

What is your contingency plan to replace those capabilities on that type of scale if the Secretary sticks with his decision?

I think it made sense to make it job specific. It obviously takes a lot more physicality being an infantryman then to be a cyber warrior or a pilot.

How about if we move in that direction. But separately, I would hope, and I'll just leave you with this, that the Army always has a goal to have the most lethal vehicle fleet, not the one that emits the less carbon.

If it ain't broke, keep it moving too.

Let's push it out to the warfighter, not pull it back into the building.

So, my question is, why are you taking authority away from warfighters, and essentially giving it back to the bureaucracy?

With the Navy's request to decommission Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships are there any plans to utilize these vessels in future Fleet Training Sinking Exercises which would provide an opportunity for their hulls to serve as artificial…

In my opinion that is a decade and a half too late and insufficient considering the clear overmatch in capacity the Chinese will have in the Pacific.

I want to overmatch. I want to win, in the next 5 years.

I think we have allowed this committee and the building to fall into a false choice of readiness versus modernization.

We're at our lowest point at 2027, when they're at the highest point.

I'm not buying that we can make up for a 105-ship delta that they can concentrate all in one ocean with short supply lines.

Yesterday the intelligence community briefed the Senate, the much talked about timeline. And we basically have 5 years, 2027, until the Chinese Communist Party believes they have overmatch in the Western Pacific.

I think it's very important for the American people to see visually the trend lines of what's going on with our Navy, and what's going on with the Chinese Navy.

We should be expanding and modernizing our naval capabilities. We absolutely should not go along with the administration's plan to cut these capabilities.