At no other time in history have we as a Nation faced such serious, complex, and growing threats to our national security.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

We have got to keep this asset flying.

So it would be a serious--it would be a catastrophic war, especially for innocent people in some of our allied countries.

We can't retire one more A-10 until we are done with that.

Our adversaries are rapidly advancing their tactics and their capabilities.

I am concerned that the fiscal year 2018 defense budget request is not enough to address the shortfalls and damage caused by years of underfunding.

We are getting calls on this, and this is obviously a pocketbook issue for so many? Are we making some progress on this?

It is my hope we can find a bipartisan common ground to give our military the robust support that our service chiefs and combatant commanders tell us they desperately need.

The Pentagon is going to have to be tougher on cutting waste and controlling spending.

Most importantly, what it does is it assures our allies that we actually are committed, and it deters Russia because they know we have the ability to respond.