Steve Russell: “We can do better. We look forward to working with the Committee in making that a reality.”

One of our challenges here on this Committee is to get out enough to the field and to get people here that can tell us what they deal with every day in the heartland.

Nothing will recreate this mid-level experience that we are now diminishing, and 30,000 more troops cut--we won't replace that.

If they were to fail, if the firewall in the sub-Saharan Africa were to break, it would have implications that we really can't fathom.

The Department of Defense is the only agency ever in the United States Government that has never been audited.