Jack Reed

If I am right and we do not make the 2017 deadline, how do we keep that pressure on after 2017

Can the Department of Defense be audited?

Information technology is so critical to businesses today to be agile, to be proficient and productive.

I think there is an awful lot that can be done to improve the way the Department works without legislation.

You have been a major force in developing Government-wide procurement reform initiatives.

You have made a significant contribution to maintaining that environment of bipartisanship.

If and when confirmed, will you work to ensure that the Department of Defense produces a final MLA rule that, like the proposed one, robustly enhances protections for servicemembers and their families and improves military readiness?

You have also led efforts in the Senate to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in the Pentagon acquisition.

We are now in a position of trying to essentially contain the regional ambitions of the Iranians and kinetically defeat the Sunni radical Islamists.

Would you acknowledge that part of our strategy has to be constituting an Iraqi Government that is perceived by its own people as being a bit fairer and inclusive?

ISIL's depraved and violent campaign in Iraq and Syria to establish an extremist caliphate threatens to erase borders, destabilize the region, and create a breeding ground for foreign fighters willing to return to the West to carry out…

The consequences could alter the face of the region for generations and generations.

The United States has not faced a more diverse and complex array of crises since the end of the second world war.

On behalf of Chairman McCain, I would like to request unanimous consent to include written comments in the record from outside groups for up to 30 days after the conclusion of the hearing.

While we await the full details of the department's proposals, there are a few immediate notable aspects of the request.

So this is not just about the benefits to the individual military personnel. This is about the overall viability of the health care system in the military?

I think it is extremely important to have this hearing today for the reasons the chairman outlined.

Whatever we do, I think you will manage, which presents the interesting problem that we could be in a period of a steady accelerating but invisible decline until a crisis, and then the reckoning will be severe.

It is not the right time to pursue new sanctions legislation, and doing so could diminish our security, not enhance our security.

This has been an extraordinarily useful hearing.

General Scowcroft and Dr. Brzezinski talked about the importance of the region but also warned against the United States, in their words, 'owning it.'

Each of you emphasized the need to use all instruments of national power, not just military power, but also diplomacy and economic power.

General Mattis emphasized the need to have a clear understanding of what our political objectives are in the region.

I join with my colleagues to speak about the inclusion of the HAVEN Act in the National Defense Authorization Act we are considering today. The HAVEN Act, which I sponsored along with Senator Johanns, authorizes a pilot program to help…

Your Class B directors are essentially chosen by the banks, and that is not lost on anyone.