Nuclear deterrence is our number one priority defense mission.

I welcome the stronger Air Force budget.

Whatever we do with regard to these folks, we have to be--it has to be real, and it has to be effective.

The Fair Chance Act is a bipartisan legislation that I introduced with Representative Darrell Issa to address these challenges in the Federal Government.

At some point in time, this Congress needs to have a debate after 16 years and let us have a new debate on the future of Afghanistan.

We have spent billions and trillions of dollars to rebuild Afghanistan, and we cannot build your bridges and your roads right here in America.

The problem is that Congress continues to pass bills that waste money over there, and we cannot even get a debate.

The biggest cancer on the soul of our country right now is the American criminal justice system, and we can make it right.

If you are black born in America today, you have a one in three chance of going to prison.

This is not the America for which we dream.

So we are really not talking about a fix. We are talking about covering up the problem or stabilizing it?