Richard Spencer: “The issues of safety and training and their impact on readiness are of vital importance to the security of our Nation.”

What message does that send to the troops? ... We have to have good order and discipline.

Our budget submission supports building a more lethal, resilient, and agile force to deter and defeat aggression.

Your Navy-Marine Corps team remains very capable; however, our competitive advantage is being challenged.

It would be devastating. For all the money that you have given us, the 2017 RAA, the 2018 and 2019 budget, we are up on the bicycle. We are pedaling down the street. We go into a CR, we fall off the bike, period.