James Langevin actually said...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank all of our witnesses for your testimony today.

I thank the ranking member. I want to thank all of our witnesses for your testimony today.

To say it another way, normalizing for inflation and labor cost escalation, this S&T budget has effectively been shrinking for years.

I am concerned that our S&T investments represent an alarmingly small percentage of our overall defense budget...