Mike Turner

Yes, without question.

Ukraine is a democracy, while Russia is an authoritarian regime that is seeking to impose its will, upon a validly-elected democracy, in Ukraine. And we're on the side of democracy.

Ukraine is a democracy. Russia is an authoritarian regime that is seeking to impose its will upon a validly elected democracy in Ukraine, and we are on the side of democracy.

You killed an innocent man, and yet an attack didn't happen.

Representative Garamendi is correct. Russia and China are in an arms race; we are not merely modernizing our forces. It is sad that we are here trying to defend against an amendment that will weaken our national defense just as yesterday…

It's always concerning when we have testimony, as we have from the both of you, concerning China's and Russia's modernization.

It is a more credible deterrent, and it allows us to not rely on the threat of large-scale nuclear responses.

The acting secretary acknowledged that he requested that this be defunded.

I always like to point out that, prior to the deployment of Iron Dome, the critics of missile defense used to say that it is too expensive, it is escalatory, and that it won't work.

We must replenish the Iron Dome system and help advance next-generation missile defense technology developed by the United States and Israel.

The missile defense budget is just one example of where the Biden defense budget comes up short.

I am very concerned in where it has placed us in that it is so late, having received it in June.

Do you know the extent to which you have undermined the President of the United States in his arms control negotiations by undertaking what can only be described as a unilateral, you alone having done it, disarmament recommendation?

Do you realize the extent to which you have undermined President Biden and the United States in indicating that a weapons system that is nuclear is going to be unilaterally defunded without any negotiations or without receiving any…

We don't have a copy of the previous best 200 study that was completed at the end of the Obama administration. Would you commit to providing that to the committee?

I believe that unilateral disarmament is certainly, you know, as a policy, idiotic because we don't have a support for our deterrence and certainly we have no bargaining chips when we meet with our adversaries.

It is a hell of a way to start a dialogue is to call for the canceling.

You can't achieve arms control if you unilaterally give away assets that could be both beneficial to deterrence and/or beneficial to negotiations.

I am very concerned and I think we are all shocked to have heard the news of the Acting Secretary of the Navy appearing to take action to zero out the sea-launched cruise missile.

I am disappointed in the top line in the President's budget. It does not keep up with inflation...

I think our over-classification and tendency to over-classify is still a little bit of the vestige of the Cold War mindset.

Getting information out in the public domain actually puts information in the hands of those parliaments and legislators.

We certainly don't want to weaken those that we have.

I think we have work to do now and in the future.

I want to share your affinity for GAO. There has been a tremendous amount of important legislation and policy changes that have come out of GAO reports.