"Where were those concerns--I didn't hear them voiced through any amendment in the process of a 2017 tax modification."
"The problem is we haven't committed to a mission. I have asked Secretary Blinken to define what he thinks the mission is."
"We could say that we support a mission that this war doesn't spread to NATO."
"That takes different resources."
"We have to recognize that would include occupying part of Russia, toppling their government, and replacing them with a different government."
"What is actually happening, and I appreciate the chairman for recognizing, by giving them a few resources and an open checkbook, we are not defining what it takes to win."
"we're not there the way that--when I talked to our allies and Africa in particular, talk to them, they said, you just--we want you to be our partners. You're not there."
"if we're going to put a--you know, if we're going to be there and we're going to put ourselves on the field you have to fund a team"
"there are Republican proposals that went through that would have had the effect of 22 percent budget cut on USAID, Commerce, State Department."
"If we're going to be competitive we have to fund the team on the ground."
"I hope that every effort is being made to monitor the Taylor Force Act conditions, that not any of the money should in any way go to benefit the terrorist families for the terrorists, suicide terroris..."
"I'm just concerned on an ongoing basis, as we are developing technology, advanced technology, and defenses together, the issue of artificial intelligence, and AI is a concern, a growing concern about ..."