Michael Waltz

Does anyone on the board today have any data that you can provide the committee that shows that a more diverse or less diverse... is more effective, is more ready?

I think the broader issue is we are hearing your testimony today.

So there was no consequences for that statement, which is not in accordance with the policy that you have outlined?

So essentially what you are saying is you described the policy today; Lieutenant General Burt violated that policy.

Soldiers will not be accessed, classified, trained, assigned, promoted or otherwise managed on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, or national origin.

As long as I sit in this seat we will drive accountability for you and for your loved ones.

How does it make you feel that not a single official has resigned, been relieved, then court martialed?

There's a direct causality there, in your opinion?

This was an utter lack of planning that their loved ones paid the ultimate price for.

It's a bunch of crap. It's a garbage argument and I think deep down my colleagues on the other side of the aisle know it in their hearts.

Virtually all of our allies and partner countries in Asia now face a very serious national security threat from the Chinese Communist Party.

I have a revised amendment to the ANS.

The Navy has for years asserted it requires 66 nuclear attack submarines for its warfighting requirements. We are currently at 49.

This is our final and most significant strategic advantage when it comes to deterring and countering the aggression of the Chinese Communist Party in the Pacific and around the world.

Why weren't they comfortable in an inclusive environment going through their chain of command? And that is something that I think I encourage you to deeply, deeply think about.

All of this--the inclusive language, the safe spaces, the microaggressions--may hide under a sheen of inclusivity, but it is actually an ideology which serves a purpose.

Instead of being inclusive, it simply makes words meaningless.

The NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] strongly affirms that admission to our service academies must be on the basis of merit, not on skin color or ethnicity.

I believe race-based admissions in any form violate the Constitution, and the military service academies must ensure immutable characteristics like race, like color, have no bearing on a candidate's ability to tackle the rigors of the…

The concern of this committee is that we have political pressure to tip the scales from a meritocracy.

We want equal opportunity for every single American. Equal opportunity, for every single American to serve.

We do not have race-based composition goals at the academy.

This isn't a way of thinking or a history class, this is present-day indoctrination.

I cannot state strongly enough, if we did not have cadets, military members, their families bringing these issues to us on a consistent basis, we wouldn't be addressing them here.

We talk a lot about misinformation. There are no instances of artillery, missiles, flamethrowers, or anything else that has been said about this being passed on to law enforcement that is prohibited by Congress, and this amendment would…