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Jack Francis Reed is a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since January 7, 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Reed has been an influential figure in the Senate, particularly known for his work on the Armed Services Committee. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on issues such as national security, veterans' affairs, and economic development. Reed has also been involved in various legislative efforts aimed at improving education and healthcare access for Rhode Islanders.
General Austin, I look forward to your assessment of the political atmosphere in Baghdad and whether you believe the conditions are set for a political dialogue, which will stabilize the political situation to complement military actions…
Iraq's political leadership must confront the longstanding questions related to political reconciliation in Iraq.
This administration's great failure to date has not been that it makes mistakes. It is rather that it has failed or perhaps refused to learn from them.
Access to affordable home energy is a matter of health and safety for many low-income households, children, and seniors.
An aggressive Russia continues to violate international convention in an attempt to fracture the post-Cold War vision of a Europe that is whole, free, and at peace.
The international is very important because of the ability and willingness of entities to arbitrage sort of regulatory environments.
One of human phenomenon is sometimes when you try to fix a problem, you unwittingly create other problems.
If sequestration were imposed and went to those levels, that we could not perform the missions assigned to us under the current strategy
The point that has been made very, very powerfully by the chairman and myself is that sequestration has to be eliminated
The combatant commander designation would allow us to be faster, which would generate better mission outcomes.
I also noted, and you acknowledged, that only half of Cyber Command's uniformed cyber mission forces are initially capable.
The committee received testimony last fall from multiple witnesses recommending elevation of Cyber Command to a full unified command.
One of the points that you both made and I made in my statement was the decision by Secretary Carter to lower the number of combat air patrols for the remotely piloted aircraft from 60 to 65.
I believe that China's actions are provocative, increases tensions, and it causes the nations in the region to look to the United States as their security partner of choice and away from China.
The threats facing our Nation are not diminishing, and it underscores our need for a well-trained and well-resourced, properly equipped military force that can deploy at a moment's notice.
The increasing velocity of instability, combined with continued reductions in defense spending, will inevitably lead to depleted readiness, chronic modernization problems, and deteriorating morale.
It is clear from the events of the last few months that we are facing a challenge of increasing complexity and instability in the region.
I look forward to continuing our relationship, but I know you're contemplating retirement, and I want to thank you for your service.
As you know there are two provisions addressing the competition for DOD launch that have become law for fiscal year 2016.
If ULA were to cease production of the Delta IV purely for competitive reasons it would eliminate production of the RS-68 engine produced by Rocketdyne--our only U.S. company solely focused on liquid propellant rocket engines for medium…
At times to preserve our industrial base, services such as the Navy have used an acquisition approach called dual allocation, which allocates set quantities to two providers.
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