Kelly Ayotte

No capability gap is created; rather our CAS tactics allow us to use multiple assets capable of offering the flexibility, range, speed, lethality, precision, and ability to mass at a desired time and place.

Under the BCA, we must adjust our previously planned spending levels by $90B per year.

Divesting the F-15C would also mean we are no longer capable of providing air superiority over a major theater of operations.

the Commander of CENTCOM needs to be brought in this, in terms of the five potential commanders that could get back on the ground in Afghanistan and threaten our troops.

under the President's budget request, the Army is dramatically reducing the size of the force in the coming years.

the Army involuntarily separated 420 soldiers.

I find it shocking, the fact that you are Commander of AFRICOM and that the State Department has not already coordinated with you.

We want to make sure that they stay in the Navy and able to serve the Navy.

The Department of Defense is the last federal agency to fail to be auditable.

As our forces draw down from Afghanistan, business available to commercial carriers has declined rapidly, threatening industry's ability to support surge deployments should the need arise.

I know that Senator King shares my pride with the work done at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

Iran's desire is to be a hegemon in this region.

I want to thank the Chairman. I want to thank all of you for what you do for the country.

How long do you think it might take to gather that information from him?

Seems to me that our enemies--almost anything that becomes symbolic of the United States of America and our fight against them can be used as a radicalization and recruitment tool.

Iran routinely engages in malign activity through the Iranian threat network.

We will do everything possible to minimize those costs.

More than 1,000 pieces of Russian military equipment have been transferred into Ukraine, including tanks, armored personnel carriers, heavy artillery pieces and other military vehicles and equipment . . . These are not the actions of a…

I wanted to follow up on the issue of Ukraine, on a different topic, and that is the issue of U.S. intelligence sharing.

Where would we detain and interrogate him?

How would that number decline if defense sequestration returns fully, and what specific ships would be cut?

They are also trying to destabilize that government, which, of course, would, in my view, threaten our interests there.

I want to thank the Chairman. I want to thank all of you for being here. I think this is a very important hearing.

I think these suggestions that we heard are really helpful as this Committee moves forward to try to put in some legislation with teeth to make a difference for businesses across the country and to be more transparent in this regulatory…

Then why was it such an important topic of discussion, if it is that insignificant.