David Price, Congressman David Price in response to this accident, March 12th, introduced a new bill. He wants to reintroduce the safe act, which meant you're going to take these and eject them when the aircraft hits the ground.

Failing to produce all 52 Littoral Combat Ships would significantly reduce the size of our fleet.

The LCS is the rare military program that has seen cost decrease instead of increase over time.

The LCS is a fast, versatile, fuel-efficient, and highly capable ship.

Reducing the ships in the LCS program in fiscal year 2015 through fiscal year 2017 is simply a bad idea.

As we sit here today, 20,000 Russian troops are sitting on the border of Ukraine, and it is not beyond our imagination that we are going to be needing to kill tanks sometime in the future.

People around the world, our allies and adversaries, are watching to see how we answer these questions.

If we withdraw from the world's stage, we would leave a vacuum that others, others whose interests do not necessarily align with ours, are all too eager to fill.

I have seen the number 43 percent of the requests that are made by the combatant commanders actually have requirements met.

So it seems to me that you have got to figure out how we are doing all this counting.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving the peace.