Joe Wilson

Each administration serves as a steward of these assets with a responsibility to defend, strengthen, and lead them.

America's friends and allies are the United States' best competitive advantage.

The Nuclear Posture Review provides a framework for modernizing the nuclear triad.

What extraordinary time to have recognition of the 70th anniversary of NATO... the broadest spread of freedom and democracy than in the history of the world.

Thank you very much. It is great to see U.S.-Polish relations.

And, Madam Secretary, a great achievement was to place American troops in Poland. It was a message to the Russian Federation that we are serious about defending our NATO allies.

The reliance of Germany on Gazprom, on natural gas from the Russian Federation.

The success of the American military really needs to be recognized.

To reaffirm the chairman's statistics, our concerns are bipartisan. Close to 80 percent of Yemen's population of nearly 30 million people are currently in need of some form of assistance.

These threats only reinforce the need for an effective deterrent strategy.

And the deterrence is so absolutely critical.

I believe this provides a clear path for the U.S. to modernize, reform, and build partner capacity through an emphasis on peace through strength.

I have worked with IRI, International Republican Institute, and just as Congresswoman Bass, I have had the opportunity to be an election observer and how meaningful these programs are.

We are asking you just to hit the accelerator button, and so, with that I think comes a great responsibility to talk about how we are going to free up additional resources.

We ought to give you all the equipment, ships, and personnel necessary to accomplish that mission with the least amount of lives lost and put at risk as possible.

My understanding of what Congress' role should be in regards to oversight really lies in the world of dictating to the Navy who it is that we fight or compete with and why.

Fully supportive of a 355-ship Navy, which I think gets us to the place.

The nuclear triad is critical to protecting the homeland and strategic deterrence.

The strategic location is absolutely incredible. Three hours to everywhere, and the patriotic people of Guam are just--should be so treasured.

What are the Navy's plans to implement the National Defense Authorization Act requirement that ships return to the U.S. after 10 years overseas?

I want to thank you for every effort to avoid such an accident ever to occur again.

Thank you, Chairman John Garamendi, and Admirals, thank you very much for your service and for your Navy families.

I am concerned right now in that region with the firepower ratios that we have with China.

We have to fight today with what we have, especially in your area of the world.

America is the greatest power in the world like many powers before us, and being an Army guy, it is hard for me to admit this, but America is a great power because of the seapower.