Andy Harris

I have always made known my preference for giving parents the choice of where to send their students.

I hope this administration will be different than the last administration, though, in determining that the NIH is essential to protecting human life and property.

I was disappointed the Senate Minority Leader basically was threatening to shutdown the Government over, you know, not building a southern border defense.

Dr. Volkov... does believe it is a gateway drug.

Thank goodness we have a president who says don't do drugs because of a personal tragedy in his family of addiction.

I do think that the message that comes from the government about drugs is important.

Our current and future operational plans, for both steady state and conflict, must continue to consider climate change impacts.

My responsibility is to ensure the President has a powerful, lethal, and ready military force in the Indo-Asia-Pacific in the event the other instruments of national power, specifically diplomatic and economic, fail.

The best thing that the Congress can do to help me today is end sequestration and give us a budget.

I think that we must improve our ability to defend against and conduct--defend against hypersonic weapons and develop our own hypersonic weapons.

I have to be careful when I talk hypersonics in an open hearing. I am concerned about Chinese and Russian hypersonic weapons development.

Everything that has been done up to this point has not worked in deterring Kim Jong-un, so all of the military capabilities that we have, all of our alliances, and all of that, have not deterred Kim Jong-un's desires to achieve a nuclear…

If we do not maintain credible combat power to confront Kim Jong-un's testing and his development goals, then we are going to be in a position to be blackmailed by KJU.

We share democratic values with India. We are the world's two largest democracies.

I believe it represents a tremendous opportunity for the United States at large and for PACOM in particular in the mil-to-mil space.

9 out of 10 mega-cities in the world are in the Pacific Command's area of responsibility.

I probably have a tenth of my requirements are fulfilled.

I think that sends a powerful signal of solidarity with our South Korean ally.

I think the modernizing of our nuclear deterrent is absolutely critical to our Nation for our survival.

As I said earlier, I do not think that it poses too much of a difficulty for a Nation like the United States.

It is clearly a matter of when.

There is no doubt in my mind, Chairman.

I do not have what I need today against the current threats.

This Secretary of Education has taken a lot of heat for actually implying that our public school systems don't really do too good a job and that maybe they need a little reform.

I am very worried that, you know, this PIAAC measure says the U.S. ranks 21st out of 23 in numeracy.