The Congress has provided funds for 21 Global Hawk Block 30 aircraft at a cost of approximately $4 billion.

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…

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.

The Department's combatant commanders have an insatiable need for ISR.

Given our alarming and unsustainable national debt, 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.

I would encourage you to look at the most rational way to draw down if you have to.

As far as I know, there never was a moment in time when our troops ever had anything other than the best body armor out there.

What is wrong with a policy, going forward, that we use foreign military sales... and that we simply supplement that with whatever number of tanks that the Guard now has?

So why do we have titles like--articles like this, 'No New Tanks'? We are not suggesting any new tanks.