Thom Tillis

I think that your review of the Durham experience since 2008 was extraordinary.

Fewer and fewer victims, until there are none.

The hearing will come to order.

Well, anything we can do with the help and support of the efforts for FRC East, count me in.

Until we have that organic capability, you are going to pay a part of a premium.

If we have people who have a deeply held belief that it is an act of war, then they should be talking about taking the steps that Congress takes.

I will never fight for a dollar in North Carolina that can be better spent somewhere else.

China is a bad actor, and that there legitimate, I think, national defense concerns there.

Let us take a look at China's modernization program. Do they historically fund those programs in 1-year or 2-year cliff intervals?

I want this to be the continuation of a dialogue as we go into the NDAA.

Military and Civilian Personnel Programs and Military Family Readiness.

Our message to the industry has to be we will pay for value, but the difficulty here is we have to define it.

I think that we have got to realize that one of the biggest issues we have in Medicaid is a lack of compliance.

I appreciate you offering to work with us and partner with us and do--on a bipartisan basis, come up with good outcomes.

The key here is we need lean regulations everywhere.

We feel like that there is a lot that works in DOPMA and that we do not want to break something that is not broken.

I do think going forward it would be interesting to see--I can see where that provides I think better visibility into the resources available from the perspective of optimizing who ultimately gets the assignment and having the command…

I would be very proud if any one of my daughters--and we have three--would want to go. But I realize I am kind of sending her into the lion's den in a sense.

The issue of sexual assault in the military bothers me. It is 10 times higher than it is in the civilian sector.

Senator Warren, you were going right after the questions I was going to ask.

I am concerned that the outcomes DOPMA was designed to achieve are growing increasingly irrelevant for some threats facing today's military.

I do not think we really do a good job of explaining at the atomic level, the consumer level, the price that they are paying for regulations.

To me, it is a good working example of why we need to right-size regulations and remove some of these impediments that simply do not make any sense.

You have asked me a question, and I want to answer it. I actually want to provide the funding to the military, to the men and women who are working hard to protect this Nation, and that doesn't happen through procedural discussions. It…

Actually, what I want to work on is funding that goes at least for the next 4 weeks and maybe the next year. I want to get to regular order. I actually want to provide certainty to men and women in uniform who are out there fighting in…