Mike Turner
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Mike Turner is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 10th congressional district since 2003. He has been involved in various committees, focusing primarily on national security and defense issues. Throughout his tenure, Turner has advocated for policies aimed at strengthening the military and enhancing the safety of American citizens. His work has included addressing concerns related to defense spending and military readiness.
Could the potential effects of sequestration on major defense acquisition programs be mitigated by delaying new starts, canceling lower priority programs, or curtailing existing programs?
How will the CR and sequestration impact your major defense acquisition programs and will these reductions require a change in national military strategy?
Sequestration and the CR are having an adverse effect in the short term and are expected to exacerbate the long term strike fighter shortfall.
How would sequestration and CR scenario impact the procurement of F-35As? Would lower procurement numbers results in a future strike fighter shortfall?
IMPACTS OF A CONTINUING RESOLUTION AND SEQUESTRATION ON ACQUISITION AND MODERNIZATION
A fair number of programs appear to have been able to absorb the FY13 sequestration with minimal or little immediate impact.
I want to thank Chairman Frelinghuysen for his dedication and commitment to the important issue of our strategic assets. When we look at the NNSA, they have had for a number of years difficulty in getting support from this administration…
On rollcall No. 538, I was inadvertently detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' ____________________
The House remains actively engaged in finding a solution to end the current impasse. The House has passed a number of commonsense bills to fund our troops, continue funding for veterans' benefits, and allow the District of Columbia to…
I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, the other side of the aisle would have us believe that this shutdown is somehow a Republican-engineered shutdown. They would have you believe that the government only shuts down with…
As you and I have discussed, Tuesday morning, 8,700 employees at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base were unnecessarily furloughed. I have voted every single time to fully fund the government, and I have opposed this shutdown. This shutdown is…
I opposed this from the beginning because I feared that we would be right here where we are, where the President is not coming to the table with any recommendations for us to be able to find those offsets.
The President's sequestration was intended to be a process by which the President would seek, with Congress, alternative offsets so that defense would not bear the brunt of these cuts.
one more year of sequestration would be absolutely devastating to our military.
despite the assurances that Treasury's role, as well as the Presidential task force for the auto industry, was purely advisory, ... played a direct role in GM's decisions and operations up to and through bankruptcy.
These decisions were made on the basis of politics and not prudence. Those responsible need to be held accountable for their actions.
But, Mr. Secretary, you understand that they don't understand how it is that you would not have enough money to pay them, but yet you have enough money to take us into a conflict with Syria.
you know, they are looking at sequestration stopping in 2014 because the President has no proposal on the table, no leadership whatsoever on----
We're not dealing with the IRS coming forward and saying this is what has happened, either to the American public or to this committee.
The only thing that's rolling is that you're rolling the American people and you're rolling this committee and it is going to stop.
With all due respect to the gentleman from Indiana, I won't question his historical description of the issues of the use of nuclear weapons, although I find it confusing. I will say that this amendment and its terms are not about the issue…





