You both affirmed to the Armed Services Committee on July 9, 2020, that you are aware that, under the Constitution, the duly elected President is the sole Commander in Chief of the United States.

I recognize that there is only one legitimate President of the United States at a time in accordance with U.S. law.

It seems very unlikely, based on current public health projections and agency return to work plans, that access to national security facilities will be back to pre-COVID-19 levels by September 30th.

I am concerned about the ability of small business subcontractors to carry staff for extended periods without revenue.

Do you agree with me that section 3610 coverage should be extended by Congress beyond to September 30th?

Today, I cast my vote for the coronavirus relief package. The coronavirus pandemic has affected Americans deeply in every facet of their lives. Our government has asked, and in Ohio our governor has ordered, that Americans stay home other…

we have to make certain that what we are doing is effective and efficient, that we don't just build new bureaucracies, that we don't duplicate things.

I want to thank you for your service. I want to thank you for everything that you got us through, sequestration, the difficulties of the effects upon readiness, and seeing the advances that our adversaries have made in both missiles and…

There is a dire need for Congress to have access to unbiased, timely, technical understanding.

failure to undertake the NNSA's modernization plan would be the effect of unilateral disarmament.

We are really at, as I said before, a tipping point. We have no more margin for error.

Supporting our nuclear modernization efforts remains the number one priority of the Department of Defense.

The budget request for the entire nuclear enterprise across both the Department of Energy [DOE] and the Department of Defense [DOD] for fiscal year 2021 is approximately $49 billion.

We have no margin built in any longer for infrastructure or modernization.

There is no margin for slip in this program. We must continue to support it while ensuring the best value for our government.

We are not trying to do what Russia has done, we are not going to create new nuclear weapons.

We should take an action to backfill those funds and give the President the funds necessary to secure our border.

So it is important that we get to that 80 pit per year by 2030 goal so that we have what is essential: a safe, reliable, effective credible secure nuclear force that can keep us safe and secure in the 2030s and well beyond.

It is Congress's failure to act, not your actions, that are resulting in dollars being taken from the Department of Defense budget.

All of these are incredibly destabilizing weapons.

Continued uninterrupted funding for the European Deterrence Initiative is critical to sending a very clear signal to Russia.

What we are trying to do is modernize nuclear weapons, which is replace the capabilities we currently have with modern capabilities.

What they are doing is not modernization. What they are doing is creating whole new capable systems.

I support the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, and I, too, thank Adam Smith for his leadership in bringing a bipartisan bill as the final NDAA to this floor. This bill continues the deployment of low-yield nuclear…

The House recently passed a resolution disagreeing with the President's decision to withdraw troops from Syria.