Michael Waltz

the decision to close Red Hill has absolutely forced and I think accelerated the larger conversation about operational requirements for fuel in the region

our ability to confront future adversaries absolutely and fundamentally depends on sealift, airlift, and ground logistics

we have to really start taking meaningful actions so that surge and sustainment sealift is ready to deliver

I think we owe that to the Ukrainians and we owe that honest assessment to ourselves.

I think we're seeing a theme here that we need to be very, very careful of as we move forward and that a fear of escalation could actually invite the escalation from the other side.

Do you believe further sanctions, such as prohibiting U.S. Government contracts to businesses in the supply chain of Putin's war machine, would further cripple their ability to carry-on offensive operations and air and missile strikes?

It was a policy decision to vacate the Black Sea?

I think we need to recognize, and we need to do so in a very clear-eyed way, that deterrence did fail, the fact that we have cities that are now leveled.

Ukrainians don't want to be trained on the weapon systems that we're providing them?

I mean, saying that our Asian allies are unified after Taipei is leveled, we need to apply these lessons and these failures and lessons learned on what failed up front.

Are we still reliant on Pakistan for overflight of our ISR assets?

The President of the United States has cited the over-the-horizon strategy.

Would you characterize that as over the horizon?

I am in my district saying, 'The administration says we can do this,' even though, as a special operator, I know better.

It is time to restructure our European force posture to this new reality.

I just hope those solutions will be in place before we transition a fleet and find ourselves vulnerable.

our bases in Europe are dependent and they're vulnerable.

I mean, the Germans have gotten religion. We should, too.

What steps are you taking? What steps is the Department taking to eliminate or at least significantly reduce our European bases from our addiction to Russian gas?

We're running out of time and the warfighter must come first.

We produce oil and gas here in the United States. Those supply lines are secure.

I think you would find enthusiastic support here with this committee.

We cannot sacrifice the capabilities that our men and women in uniform need.

energy is being used as a weapon right now and we're seeing that on the headlines of all of our news feeds around the world.

I worry that the Chinese control 90 percent of the world's lithium, cobalt, graphite.