the American taxpayer deserves this. Congress deserves an answer as well.

we are skirting our responsibilities.

I have been asking for cost justifications for these movements for over 2 years now and I am yet to see an answer that shows me any cost savings.

We have a bipartisan and bicameral support of Congress in the last NDAA. Congress wants CHAMP.

I am sorry, but I am not going to let the Air Force get away with moving families, disrupting communities, and moving our airmen around whenever they feel like it without justification.

I want to know exactly how much it is going to cost in actual dollars, fuel, MILCON, other relocation costs, manpower downtime, for these planes to move to Little Rock Air Force Base from Keesler Air Force Base.

It seems like the Air Force is hellbent on moving these aircraft out of South Mississippi.

I think that whoever did the math in this instance is flat wrong.

What do you think will happen if we do not turn off sequester in 2016?

I think the majority of this committee would agree with you and many Members in Congress.

I have serious questions about the speed at which the drawdown of the A-10 is going to occur prior to another weapon system being put in place.

I am going to fight to kill this one just as I fought to kill the other two.

the world is not getting safer but is becoming more dangerous and that we need more ships, not less ships.

So the Marines clearly want and need a 12th LPD [landing platform/dock] and the LPD maintains the critical industrial base hot for rolling right into procuring the next amphibious ships based on the LPD hull form.

That same individual told me that they knew that the Department of Defense was going to continue to take painful cuts from the military until BRAC was viewed as the lesser of two evils, would you agree with that statement?

Our bill is the result of extensive bipartisan, bicameral work over the past year. This bill is both compassionate and fiscally responsible. From the start, my priority has been to ensure that flood insurance remains available and…

The future of human space exploration is one that is personal to me.

We as a country are more dependent upon a peaceful, quiet and stable space environment than any other nation in the world.

I consider American leadership in space as a matter of national pride but also national security.

Congress has consistently provided more funding for the Orion and Space Launch System than the Obama administration has requested.

Civil space cooperation is not something done just for fun or even just only for inspiration, as important as that is.

I believe we are on the right track but we must remain budget-focused and mission-vigilant.

The current schedule for NASA's first manned flight is 2021 on the Orion and SLS, but that is based on the President's budget plan.

We must ensure that future exploration endeavors lay the groundwork for an eventual human landing on Mars.

We have, I think, an opportunity to serve our long-term national security and geopolitical interests with a program of space exploration.