Susan Collins

Let me encourage you, and the other members of the administration, including the President, to make that case to the American people, much more forcefully.

This disappoints me, and I ask you: do you think you are requesting sufficient funding?

I view the two challenges as interconnected, and believe that Russia and China are working in concert to reshape the international order to our disadvantage.

This is a tragedy that affects each and every one of our States.

Billions of dollars' worth of military assets were left behind, including munitions, 16,000 pairs of night vision goggles, 167 aircraft, communications equipment, 2,000 vehicles.

I just don't understand why you continue to maintain on behalf of the Intelligence Community, that these are two equally plausible explanations.

It is disturbing to me that in your written statement, you say all agencies assess that two hypotheses are plausible explanations for the origin of COVID.

We know that the Department of Energy has changed its assessment to say that the most likely cause is a laboratory incident.

It takes forever to get paid a pittance, if you get paid at all.

It is unacceptable that we are losing people because it takes so long to bring them on board.

It is unfortunate that here we are, in March, and the President has yet to deliver his budget requests for fiscal year 2024.

Will these transformations improve the quality and level of healthcare for our troops and their families? That is the bottom line.

Providing for the healthcare of our troops and their families is a no-fail mission.

The Chairman is going to solve that problem in his dual role.

It takes forever to get paid a pittance, if you get paid at all.

It is unacceptable that we are losing people because it takes so long to bring them on board.

It is unfortunate that here we are, in March, and the President has yet to deliver his budget requests for fiscal year 2024.

Will these transformations improve the quality and level of healthcare for our troops and their families? That is the bottom line.

Providing for the healthcare of our troops and their families is a no-fail mission.

I just don't understand why you continue to maintain on behalf of the Intelligence Community, that these are two equally plausible explanations. They simply are not.

In the Administration's hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan by an arbitrary date, billions of dollars' worth of military assets were left behind.

It is disturbing to me that in your written statement, you say all agencies assess that two hypotheses are plausible explanations for the origin of COVID: natural exposure to an infected animal, and a laboratory-associated incident.

It is unacceptable that we are losing people because it takes so long to bring them on board.

Will these transformations improve the quality and level of healthcare for our troops and their families? That is the bottom line.

It takes forever to get paid a pittance, if you get paid at all.