Now that the technical correction was made to the amendment, my argument stands as to the previous amendment. As I said, the goal of the amendment is to allow R&D to take place using LEU, low-enriched uranium, for naval reactor fuel that…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 53, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $5,000,000)''. Page 54, line 14, after the dollar amount…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 53, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $5,000,000)''. Page 54, line 14, after the dollar amount…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you and the Ranking Member for holding this very important hearing.

Yeah, I think that the point about being reluctant to share, by the way, we have got to work at getting over that.

I claim time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Rhode Island is recognized for 5 minutes.

As I previously stated--and with all due respect to my colleague--this bill contains no funding for reducing the alert level or reducing the number of deployed ICBMs below 400, and there are no plans to do so in the future. Mr. Chair, I…

I want to, first of all, thank my HASC colleague across the aisle, ETC Chairman Wilson from the great State of South Carolina, for working with me on this bipartisan amendment to expand talent exchange authorities within the DOD. This…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank Chairman Thornberry, Ranking Member Smith, and my fellow colleagues on the committee this year for many important issues within the committee's jurisdiction which we found…

On rollcall vote No. 182, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''

On rollcall vote No. 180, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.''

As co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, I rise today in recognition of May as National Foster Care Month. Growing up, my parents welcomed many foster children into our family, providing them with a stable and nurturing…

On Monday, the Department of Defense kicked off the first bug bounty program in the history of the Federal Government. Like similar programs used in industry, Hack the Pentagon is based on a coordinated vulnerability disclosure process. If…

I would like to spend a few minutes this morning discussing the recent report of the Commission to End Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities. Chartered by Congress under the Protect our Kids Act of 2013, the Commission's goal is to provide a…

Today we mark Equal Pay Day, the day when women's wages finally catch up to what men were paid in the previous year. Mr. Speaker, it is unconscionable that in the United States today, women earn on average 79 cents for every dollar that a…

I find it appropriate the Department of Defense is involved in building a new IT system for OPM's new National Background Investigation Bureau.

I mean, that is exactly where I hope that we are going to be and that is what we want to get to.

Government nor private sector can do this independently on its own.

My colleague, Jim Cooper, likes to refer to the cloud as the acronym for Chinese Love Our Uploaded Data.

I highly commend and am very supportive of your vision for the third offset strategy and look forward to seeing how that unfolds.

As a long-term advocate for cybersecurity within this subcommittee, I am glad we have taken the time to not only discuss the build and operations, but also the infrastructure our cyber warriors operate within every day over the last few…

Can you provide an update on DOD's process for completing the instruction manual for DOD Directive 8140 and when this process might be completed?

I will be the first to let you know.

I have been one of the biggest proponents of cybersecurity as a critical warfighting domain during my time in Congress.

I hope along with all of this we are paying maximum attention to the security of the cloud.