John Warner: “I have absolutely 100 percent confidence in your integrity.”

It is a moving experience for me to reenter this room. I served on this committee for 30 years.

Judging from my own experience, these four resumes constitute an extraordinary body of knowledge needed in these respective positions and needed by our country at a critical time.

You will carry with you for the rest of your life the recollections of the work that you have done for one of America's most valued assets, the men and the women and their families of the armed services of the United States.

Good luck to each and every one of you, and to the importance of the confirmation process.