What additional legislative authorizes do you require to allow your Services the flexibility needed to avoid hollowing out the force?
Roger Wicker
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Roger Wicker is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Mississippi since 2008. A member of the Republican Party, Wicker previously served as a United States Representative from 1995 to 2008. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on issues such as national defense, economic development, and healthcare. Wicker has been involved in various legislative efforts and has held significant positions on committees, including the Senate Armed Services Committee.
If we do not have the resources to train and equip the force, our soldiers, our young men and women, are the ones who will pay the price, potentially with their lives.
Given sequestration's impending return, what is the Navy's near-term contingency plan to help protect and preserve the U.S. shipbuilding industry?
Bottom line--stable budgets at a higher level than BCA are critical to long-term strategic planning, meeting the DSG, and protecting the Homeland.
General Odierno, Admiral Greenert, General Welsh, and General Dunford, are each of you prepared to execute a budget that incorporates sequestration through at least fiscal year 2016?
It is astonishing to hear that this is the smallest Air Force ever in the history of the United States.
We lose 4, 5, 6 months on a program like for us the Ohio replacement program where we do not have time.
No nation in history has maintained its military power if it failed to keep its fiscal house in order.
Today, policymakers have a choice in front of them, a sharp choice. Do they want to protect an open Internet, or do they want broader government engineering of the Internet ecosphere?
The draft bill, although imperfect, attains the ostensible policy goals net neutrality proponents have advocated for years by essentially restating existing law, but allowing the FCC to enforce it.
If we wouldn't defend our NATO allies in the Baltics, I don't know what our word would be worth.
When Russia invaded Georgia, about all we could do was talk about it and denounce it.
I think that we don't want to re-create the Cold War, and I don't think it is necessary.
General Dempsey, last week it was reported that Marine Corps Harriers operating off the USS Bataan carried out a strike against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL).
I have no idea, based on your testimony, what our coalition partners are expected to do.
I want to make sure that we don't make the same mistake again by throwing those gains away.
President Obama rejected the advice of many of his top military leaders to leave a residual force.
I am willing to help the President, and to help you gentlemen, take this hill again if I believe there is a plan that will work and be successful.
What about these folks sitting to your right? Why can't your companies do a better job for their customers?





