John M. Richardson: “The Defense Department has grown larger but less capable, more complex but less innovative.”

Industry, commerce, and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of our people.

As the Secretary of Defense has said, we will continue to fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows, including in the Arctic region, to protect the U.S. national security interest in preserving global mobility.

It just doesn't make sense to have our entire economy based on one thing that is subject to these boom-and-bust cycles.

I strongly request that the Congress act to correct this most painful problem.