Donald Norcross

Why would you want to change a program that has worked for a hundred years, that continues to work today?

Our approach to date was we are not opening any new additional purchase orders or ordering additional material beyond the March of 2020 timeframe.

They are still supplying and is there reason to believe that they might stop anytime soon?

The point we are trying to make here, and I think it is across the board, is that the sustainment costs are a major issue.

We have to standardize this, and General, Turkey suspension from the program. We don't expect them to come back.

We need to have standards so we can make accurate decisions on the cost.

We are talking about the F-35 today in particular but this committee deals with many platforms and systems.

I believe it is imperative for leaders to establish a Department-wide policy for guidance when we are comparing costs--apples-to-apples input between some of the legacy programs and the future generation aircraft.

I agree with everything that has been said so far and note that the F-35 program is trying to recover from risky acquisition decisions made by past program leaders.

Just a quick followup. For the record, Turkey is still supplying their parts as of today.

But the gig worker is completely different.

So the idea of wanting to take on all that responsibility so you can make minimum wage is just beyond me why we think this is a really good idea.

The idea of somehow blaming every problem on the unions today it is just absolutely remarkable.

So this isn't just to beat up Uber, it is just as you said it is a verb and when we look at their model of innovation doing it through the app I think is wonderful.

I would like it if the other countries paid more of this than we currently do.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman for having this hearing and it certainly is long overdue to have some real conversations that lead to both the continuation of innovation but at a reasonable price.

That doesn't sound like to me somebody who wants to become an entrepreneur. It sounds like a company just trying to turf that off.

Those bad actors that you described, do they generally have good OSHA standards and teach their employees or themselves on how to be safe on the job?

You find it somewhat distressing that we make the greatest investment and pay the greatest prices?

I can tell you the folks in my district, nothing twerks them up more as to find out their great country spent somewhere close to $40 billion a year in NIH funding.

This is the thank you we get for putting that research. I really appreciate that.

Now you are asking yourself: Why? Well, what I heard is Americans are making it today. Absolutely right if you are that top 1 percent.

The gap between productivity of a typical worker's compensation, and that of their hourly compensation.

Together, working together in a cooperative relationship, we really can get this done.

It is about balance. It is about fairness.