Just 7 months ago, Deputy Secretary Carter certified in writing to the Congress that the Global Hawk system was 'essential to national security,' there was no other acceptable capability to meet the requirement, and the Global Hawk was…

Our budget crisis demands that we maximize the efficiency for every program.

Given our alarming and unsustainable national debt, American taxpayers expect and deserve that Congress will make the difficult decisions to restore fiscal responsibility.

Can you explain why the DOD is poised to waste the $4 billion we have already spent on these aircraft that are currently providing valuable intelligence to the warfighter?

American taxpayers expect and deserve that Congress will make the difficult decisions to restore fiscal responsibility.

I question the proposal to scrap aircraft currently providing intelligence support to our warfighters, including those purchased as recently as last year.

They have 1,300,000 people, 900 million of them in rural areas that through the miracle of communications know the advantages of industrialized economy, and they are saying, Hey, guys, what about us?

In your view, is the average citizen in these countries now better off under the dysfunctional government than they were under the tyrannical government?

That is testimony to our inability to adequately communicate with our constituents the average constituent believes that if we just didn't have any earmarks-- and now we don't-- that if we cut out foreign aid and if we cut out waste, fraud…

What victims do not need is endless paperwork, misinformation, and delays.

Another element in the discussion as to how much money we will spend in the future on defense is the recognition that our robust defense spending in the past and our willingness to protect has encouraged many of our allies to be quite…

About every 6 hours we have another billion dollar deficit, which means another billion dollars in debt. We spend almost as much on our military as all the rest of the world put together.

If we are serious about not cutting large amounts of funding from the defense budget, something else has to give.

The more money I keep here in the United States, the better off I am going to be at seeing people go back to work.

I think Roscoe Bartlett was correct when he said when we are at war and we are not getting anything for it, we are really not getting anything for it, we need to figure out, it is not that difficult to figure out where to get the money to…

But I think the sooner we get out of those wars, the better off we are.

If we could cut the trade deficit in half, we could increase U.S. GDP by a very sizable amount, and create about 5 million jobs.

I am concerned that about every 12 hours we have another $1 billion trade deficit.

Competition always makes things better and makes them cheaper.

The average American should be a big fan of coal because the electricity is so cheap largely because coal is the source of the base load production for most of our electricity.

Be very careful when you hear somebody say we have so many years of something at current use rates, because our economy is growing, our use of energy is growing.

We clearly are the most creative, innovative society in the world. We lead the world in computers and information technology.

For many of these increased regulations, the juice is not worth the squeezing.

It is unthinkable that we would cut defense to the point that we are really affecting our national security.