It seems that, wittingly or unwittingly, we created a system that it's much harder to hire a full-time DOD employee than it is to write a contract worth 10 or 20 times more.
I am grateful to Senator Shelby and Senator Vitter for raising the spectrum of this particular question.
Senator Vitter had a hearing in Louisiana. In fact, he asked me if he could do that and I agreed to allow him to do it.
Today's hearing builds on those and reflects our work with Ranking Member Richard Shelby.
I think we are all coming to the conclusion that they don't believe we are serious.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Do we know anything about it?
I understand--and correct me if I'm incorrect--that the Chinese were not aware beforehand of this attack.
I think the only way that we will begin to be viewed more seriously is if we start moving legislation here in this Congr...
For the record, Mr. Chairman, I would like to follow the Corker rule.
But it is a tribute to Senator Dodd's leadership, actually, the collaboration of everyone on this committee, including m...