I think we have been very aggressive in pushing family self-sufficiency programs, job plus programs.

One approach that I have talked to my colleagues about for several years now has been forcing the institutions and the lenders to put skin in the game.

I think your point's well-taken. These units are very scare.

You're requesting this year $25 million for a continuing care project that targeted youth.

Thank you, Madam Chairman, for the hearing.

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 combatant commander designation would allow us to be faster, which would generate better mission outcomes.

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.

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.

Cyber Command is at another set of crossroads.

We have to rebuild readiness. We have to modernize the force.

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.

if sequestration were imposed and went to those levels, that we could not perform the missions assigned to us under the current strategy

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 also noted, and you acknowledged, that only half of Cyber Command's uniformed cyber mission forces are initially capable.

today I join my colleagues in supporting the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016. This legislation will send a strong message to the North Korean regime that there are consequences to its dangerous and destabilizing…

the point that has been made very, very powerfully by the chairman and myself is that sequestration has to be eliminated

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 increasing velocity of instability, combined with continued reductions in defense spending, will inevitably lead to depleted readiness, chronic modernization problems, and deteriorating morale.

Well, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.