Roger Wicker actually said...

"I want to commend our witnesses today, but also the private sector and others for doing all that they've done to get us where we are today."

"No one is happy about the current shutdown."

"I certainly now, looking at it from the outside, working with these agencies, would give anything if we could move back to the point where we really actually had appropriations bills passed year after..."

"I agree with you [Captain Colburn] and with your written and oral testimony that the Secretary has the authority to do this and should do it."