It is February which is African American History Month.

What are we giving up by not funding 20 percent of the requirement and what is the projected long-term impact of delaying or deferring this maintenance?

What is the biggest deficiency in your area that can be addressed with MILCON funds and how would that funding ultimately result in increased readiness for the warfighter?

I applaud the work you've done.

So I think as we think about how to contend with adversaries like China and Russia, it is long-term planning that this requires.

I hope that we can provide whatever assistance we can to make sure that we do not fall back in readiness for any of the services.

I am encouraged to see from the President's budget request that ship depot maintenance ... is a top priority for the Navy.

I think that a 2-year budget deal will help. And I hope that is the way that we will proceed from now on, without these continual CRs.

Do you have similar concerns that only about 30 percent of high schoolers can even qualify to join the military?

I would really welcome Rand Paul being much more consistent. So why he didn't do this with the tax bill which should have died in my opinion, and why he is taking this bill to put forth that same argument I do not know.

Well, thanks to Rand Paul we're not able to get to a vote on the budget deal that involved a lot of compromise and has some really good items in it but Rand Paul objects.