Saxby Chambliss

In the short term, I believe that U.S. forces have the ability to prevail in the event of a conflict in the PACOM AOR.

With the exception of the U.S., all nuclear weapon states continue to modernize their nuclear weapon stockpiles and in some cases grow them further.

As you look out 20-30 years in the future, U.S. interests in South Asia will only increase.

China continues to develop weapons systems, technologies and concepts of operation that support anti-access and area denial strategies in the Western Pacific.

There has not been universal acceptance in Congress of this approach.

We need to monitor carefully China's developing ability to execute anti-access and area denial strategies and develop mitigating approaches.

I have some general concerns about the ability of the Navy to accommodate what appears to be a significant amount of growth over the next few years in the realm of missile defense.

What are we going to do with all those battlefield combatants that we have picked up and are now being housed at Bagram?

The baseline force that we have has to be maintained.

I'm always concerned about the security of our country when Colonel Graham is in theater over there.

The F-22 has proven itself to be an excellent weapon system.

The Joint Estimating Team (JET) prepared a report on the F-35 in the fall of 2008 that indicated that the F-35 would be significantly over cost and behind schedule relative to the joint program office's prediction.

About a week after the vote in the Senate last year to terminate the F-22, the JET prepared another report that said exactly the same thing.

Why didn't you tell this committee last year when we had testimony on the termination of the F-22 program that the JET was going to come back with a report a week after the vote last year on the floor of the Senate that confirmed their…

I know there's tremendous pressure on you from the administration and other arenas to promote this change, and we look forward to continuing this debate and to the study.

Why didn't you tell us that the JET was going to come out with a report that disagreed with the IOC date being met?

While the Taliban can't stop the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, it appears that the red cockaded woodpecker in Georgia has at least slowed down the transfer of the Armor School.

I'm very proud of your service and your continuing commitment to our military Services.

The primary purpose of the Armed Forces is to prepare for and to prevail in combat should the need arise.

Today we know we have gay and lesbians soldiers serving. They've served in the past. They're going to serve in the future and they're going to serve in a very valiant way.

Let me just ask you a quick question on the budget.

I think that a live and let live policy is not a bad policy to adhere to, and that's what we have in place in the military with DADT right now.

I couldn't understand why you didn't know about that, didn't know that report was coming.

Well, you've been instructed in the authorization bill last year that you will do a review of FMS and the prospect of those sales.

Do you intend to allow the expiration of foreign military sales (FMS) of the F-22?