Thank you, Chairman Cooper and Ranking Member Lamborn and the members of this committee, for your support of our mission to conduct operations in, from, and to space.

When I got to the Congress years ago for the first time, in the 1980's, there was an unspoken rule that all politics stopped at the water's edge.

I remember Hitler's aggression and what was known as war creep, and I can tell you what we are seeing here is war creep.

The Soviet Union is gone, but Mr. Putin believes that he has some divine authority to try to reinstate it.

We have a disproportionate number of members of the Republican Party dying in my state.

We can't always be playing catch-up.

If I were the average person sitting back home watching this hearing, I think I would doubt that any of our Nation state adversaries were shaking in their boots.

I am glad that we are considering bipartisan legislation today, but I am still deeply worried.

the Biden Administration has ignored, in terms of disruption of food supply

the Biden Administration would lead you to believe that these are 'high class problems.'

I would have liked to see the Administration participating in today's hearing

It is important for the American people to understand that if you follow the idiocy that is in the bipartisan infrastructure agreement, which is going to make natural gas harder to procure, we are actually not going to have lower emissions.

We ought to know that in the midst of this pandemic.

There's been a 30 percent increase in ER visits for mental health issues amongst teenagers.

School closures forced millions of students to substitute screens for classrooms.

There weren't cancer screenings for months. Thousands of undiagnosed cancers will kill Americans.

The purpose of today's hearing is to receive testimony on the 2022 budget request for missile defense programs.

the work of this subcommittee is probably the most important, technical, and consequential of any committee in the House.

In the past, President Biden has expressed support for a sole purpose doctrine and I am concerned that he may turn his personal stance into U.S. policy.

It seems pretty clear that we don't have a strategy.

I want to thank all the members for participating. These remote hearings are not always easy.

I want to thank Congresswoman Bush for her empathy for Ms. Pleus.

I have already called the Sackler family the most evil family in America.

I have also been delighted to cosponsor what I call the Anti-SACKLER Act because that will help recover more money for the victims.

I am hopeful that the Department will use this opportunity to accelerate and improve space acquisition within the Space Force.