Donald Norcross

We have ongoing operations that are taking place in the facilities the way they sit today, and we talked about you are making it work.

the risk that we are facing today because of the condition of the facilities, and typically you would see a larger influx in the beginning because this is where we are trying to catch up.

It is great to have you here today.

Thank you, Chairman. General, I have followup on the question concerning the 135s, but he talked about the next 2 years.

We are going to try to bring the committee back to order.

The subcommittee will come to order.

But incredibly important that we understand that for every Stinger that is leaving our inventory, it keeps us in a more precarious situation.

I always felt like we should have put more emphasis on the deterrence side of that, and I recommended long-range air defenses.

We need to protect Ukraine. Well, basically, there's three key pieces to it. We need to do everything we possibly can to support Ukraine in their fight against Russian aggression.

It seems imperative that we give them the ability to hit these convoys and trucks 20, 30, 40 miles back.

I think by virtually all estimates that Russia is not doing anywhere near what we expected them to do in Ukraine.

How it should end is with Russia, basically, going back where they came from and Ukraine being the sovereign democracy that it is and was and should always be.

We do not want a war with Russia, and we have to be cautious about how we approach this to make sure that we don't do that.

I'm concerned that the President's budget for at least the American buy, it's being reduced.

I am back once again to talk about the people who brought you the $8 cup of coffee, Starbucks. Since I last spoke on the floor, a couple things have changed. The $20 million man, Kevin Johnson, has resigned. I think that is a good thing…

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This is a direct result of Russia's incursion into the Ukraine.

I think that it would do well for the U.S. to be prepared for the potential disruption in democracies from food supply.

If the Ukrainians are not able to plant their crops over the next couple of months, and it certainly does not look like they will be able to, there's going to be a tremendous disruption in the food supply.

Twelve months from now, I think we're going to be talking about the issue of hunger and the disruption of democracies in the Western Hemisphere because of the lack of food supply.

We started out this morning having a quote from General and President Washington talking about how important a Navy is.

We've primed the pump, the $8 billion that's going in here to the R&D I think is a very good move.

I thank Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Rogers for their leadership in bringing this bill to the floor. This is our opportunity to pass the Defense Authorization Act for the 61st straight year. That is important. Madam Speaker, this bill…

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