Jim Inhofe

It's not reclaiming, because there's nothing to reclaim. It's building, creating, and now they're up to seven different areas, very important areas for our movement in that part of the world.

My concern is, fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2021. I think that we--maybe during the course of these questions, you'll be asked, What happens if we don't continue what we started with the 2-year budget? It could be a disaster.

Because, you know, armies don't go to war, nations go to war, and armies don't win wars, nations win wars.

We're going to continue to do it. But, how close are we now to your goal, 66 percent?

I think it's important to get that out in the open now, talk about it now.

There is not any legal justification in my mind for this, but it is being done.

It kind of solidified my understanding of the expansionist activities of China and what they are doing.

I think they were looking for a reason to walk away from this so that they could make some political points.

I was opposed to that all the way through. But the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was established to ensure that Iran's nuclear program would be exclusively peaceful.

DOE's diverse missions are critical to the national security of these United States.

Both Russia and China are developing hypersonic capabilities. We have watched them test those capabilities.

If you do not have the right response, you could put the United States in a position where the two choices for the President would be surrender or suicide

The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review calls for the development of a low-yield nuclear weapon in the range of approximately 10 kilotons to counter Russia's tactical nuclear weapons.

I think General Dunford said it the best way. He said we are losing our qualitative and quantitative edge.

Sustained Congressional support will ensure we remain ready, agile, and effective in deterring strategic attack, assuring our allies and partners today and into the future.

I would say I am more optimistic now about North Korea than I was just a short while ago.

I just disagreed with them. I've never disagreed with Dan Coats in my life until that--until last week.

We should hold them accountable for the things they're doing that are provocative and aggressive to their neighbors and to us.

China's actions and what they've done in the South China Sea does threaten our position there.

Our allies are actually having a hard time choosing between China and us because of the visibility of what they're doing.

It's creation of new land. They don't have the legal authority to do the things they're doing, but they're doing them anyway.

A fully resourced defense budget leading into long term stability will send a strong signal to our allies and partners.

I would ask Congress to make these bipartisan measures permanent and end sequestration for good.

I'm grateful for your bipartisan efforts to raise the budget caps for fiscal year 2018 and fiscal year 2019.

My personal concern with the Russians is what they are trying to do in the northern part of the country from Egypt to Libya, Tunisia, Algeria.