Walter B. Jones: “I wanted to know about the waste, fraud, and abuse that is taking place every day and what is the Department of Defense…”

I believe we have been very clear, sir, that the President's request, the PB16 [President's budget 2016] request, we believe, is the absolute minimum needed to provide the national security necessary for the United States.

The American people--over 50 percent of the American people do not want our personnel in Syria or in Iraq.

If we don't level with the American people in this very unsafe world that we live in, if we want to win the war or protect Americans then we cannot continue to go into deficit situations.

I never will forget Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense, sitting where you are telling this committee that he will account for every dollar of the taxpayer.