What can Air Force do to remove barriers to promoting the American relationships so vital to us through the State Partnership Program?

I have watched it in operation on many levels. It is underfunded.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And we thank the witnesses this morning for their longevity here.

The planned upcoming speech before Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been mishandled from the start. It is being brought forward in a manner that is in total contravention of important diplomatic protocols that…

Could you update us on the status of this report?

I thank Mr. Garamendi for bringing us together again. He is truly a leader on growing American jobs, all of the way from California, way out on the west coast, to the gentleman from New York's community on the east coast. I commend both of…

I appreciate your focus on growing the middle class and helping those who aspire to be in it to be successful in that journey. There is no question that when you have a robust middle class, it creates the demand that then buys the products…

That is really exciting, Congressman Garamendi. And when you think about our strategic reserve in terms of the military, if America enters conflicts, often we don't have those fleets within the Department of Defense. We have to lease them…

What a pleasure it is to join you this evening, and thank you for your continuing leadership on jobs, infrastructure--jobs in America, not outsourcing our jobs elsewhere--and to also be joined by Congresswoman Hahn, such an incredible…

I can only imagine. We have so many unmet needs in my own community that spans a river called the Maumee River, the largest river that flows into the Great Lakes. We built a new bridge, but the challenge there today is with the weather…

Yes, I thank the gentleman so much for pointing that out. You know, when the administration and others talk about this latest NAFTA deal, they are calling it the TPP now. They always give it initials or something--NAFTA, CAFTA, KORUS--it…

And the last deal we had was Korea. With Korea they promised, they said, we will be able to sell 50,000 American cars in Korea. Well, what has happened is they have sold, the Koreans have sold 500,000 here. We never got the 50,000 in…