Mr. Speaker, there is only one reason this bill is on the floor today: the President cares more about cutting a deal than keeping his promises. He promised we would lower costs. That turned out to be a lie. He promised we would expand…

I agree with you. I agree with you. But just to be clear, in that scenario, a lot of South Koreans and Americans in South Korea would be in trouble.

I think President Reagan would be pretty shocked to hear that our initial response to a violation--to Russia's violation of the treaty would be simply to abrogate the treaty ourselves.

Are you concerned about a conflict between North and South Korea escalating into a conflict between United States and China? Is that a risk?

I think the relationship between President Trump and President Xi is positive and encouraging, and I think that will go a long way to ameliorating the risk.

Well, we cannot stand by while innocent civilians are murdered by chemical weapons. It's important to send a message that this behavior is not acceptable. And so the initial military action is OK. But the question that we all have to ask…

We need to understand these goals. President Trump owes that to the American people. We need to understand what exactly he is trying to achieve, especially with any further military action.

If they have a strategy, they certainly haven't briefed it to us. And they seem to be all over the map.

We understand it, but we need to know what's going to come next.

How are you going to ask young men and women to risk their lives for what, for an uncertain goal? For an end game that you can't even describe, that's why having a strategy is so critical and we have yet to hear it from the Trump…

The topic of our hearing today should be important to anyone concerned about accountability, efficiency, and transparency in our multibillion-dollar defense sector.