Jack Reed actually said...

"would it make sense to review those provisions and give you more flexibility and ways in which you could conduct military-to-military dialogue with Russia in certain situations?"

"My role is to try to highlight those challenges and to make sure that whatever decision is made addresses them as effectively as we can."

"I commend you for the careful and thoughtful and hard work that went into the National Defense Strategy."

"We cannot dig ourselves out of the current readiness crisis in just 2 years."