Jack Reed actually said...

"Thank you, Chairman Collins. Secretary Chao, thank you very much for being here, and we look forward to your testimony today."

"Can we expect, that all of the funds that we've appropriated, will be expeditiously deployed?"

"The program has absolutely critical strong bipartisan support."

"As a result of the bipartisan budget agreement that President Trump signed, we set aside sequester spending levels and freed up significant amounts of new defense and non-defense discretionary dollars..."