That takes different resources.

Where were those concerns--I didn't hear them voiced through any amendment in the process of a 2017 tax modification.

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.

If we're going to be competitive we have to fund the team on the ground.

there are Republican proposals that went through that would have had the effect of 22 percent budget cut on USAID, Commerce, State Department.

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

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 terrorists, who commit crimes.

the United States, once again, stands as the arsenal of democracy.

I, like many of my colleagues, see AUKUS as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to seek to counter the CCP's malign influence in the Indo-Pacific.

There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.

But what about controlling them? Are we doing research, so that somehow these cannot somehow get out of control, spinning into a catastrophe?