Hal Rogers actually said...

"I am very disappointed that the President has put forth a budget request in order to avoid the very same budget caps he signed into law last year."

"I am equally confident that the bow wave of procurement that I alluded to in my opening remarks..."

"By all accounts, China is positioning itself to exert more influence in the Pacific and trying to build itself into a maritime power."

"We are not out to keep China down. But we don't look for anybody to dominate the region and certainly not anybody to push the United States out."