"I would like to ask you to give the subcommittee an overview of the process in which you engage with the commercial sector."
"I have a lot of concerns about the way that this is moving forward."
"The Department of Defense needs to step up, and they need to take responsibility and work with you to remediate this problem."
"Can you give us a sense of your own knowledge of that region of the world and what more we can do, working with NATO, working with you, to counter Russia's control of the Black Sea region?"
"I have long said we must have a credible, reliable nuclear deterrent, but we must do so cost-effectively and responsibly."
"I was completely fascinated. I felt like I was in a new age, I thought 'I am really in the 21st century.'"
"This budget request, in my opinion, does neither. And I am concerned that this is simply sprinting toward a cliff or toward failure."
"We have also heard repeatedly from senior Department officials and our national labs that the Department's workforce is changing."
"Your budget proposes deep and arbitrary cuts that threaten progress on addressing one of our most pressing challenges and that is climate change."
"I also wanted to say in terms of methane digesters, many of our large animal facilities can't find a methane digester that doesn't break down."
"I am reminded of a quote from Robert Kennedy, 'Some people see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were, and say, why not.'"