Senator Blumenthal and I are working on an effort to extend those provisions beyond Afghanistan to other combatant commands.

I think it's very important that people understand that if we don't do that, we will have a hollow Army.

The Army anticipates we will require involuntary separations of approximately 6,500 officers and close to 6,000 enlisted through fiscal year 2017 to achieve an end strength of 490,000.

the world's not getting any safer with Iran marching toward a nuclear weapon, with what's happening in the Persian Gulf, with our shift to the Asia-Pacific region, all of which needs naval capacity.

The Virginia-class continues to be a highly successful acquisition program with ships consistently delivering early and within budget.

Insanity is the definition of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

this is a very important issue that we are concerned about in terms of the readiness of our forces and also making sure that those who are victims receive the support that they need and a proper legal process to see that justice is done…

Once we get behind on a maintenance schedule, then the entire maintenance of our naval fleet and our submarine fleet gets behind.

The provisions have been very helpful in cutting off funds to those, our enemy, when contractors are contracting to those that we don't want taxpayers' dollars to go to.

I dare say that we can't think of another country that is doing more damage in terms of terrorism around the world and hurting our interests and those of our allies.

I completely agree with General Austin.

But just so we're clear, as of today am I not correct in saying that west coast, North Korea, we get shoot-look-shoot?