John M. Richardson: “Why can't we build the solar panels? Why can't we build the components of the wind turbines going up?”

Continued sequestration-level defense spending puts American lives at greater risk.

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

We agree 100 percent. And as the Secretary said in his opening statement, you can recruit a sailor, but you are going to retain a family, and a lot of those decisions are going to be made based on childcare.

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