"I know this is only part. It still takes the other part, as you mentioned, Tom."
"My concern is that, as we are looking at other places of the world, in our own backyard we have got--starting to get a heavy influence of Russians, but mainly Chinese."
"But we really need to start doing this because we are going to wake up like they did back in the 1980s where they said, 'Oh, my God, look what has happened in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas have taken ove..."
"My issue has been how do we explain that the United States--and I am very supportive of the military--but how do we spend more money than China, Russia, and the other countries combined and it still s..."
"I certainly agree with the chairman and the ranking member and the rest of the committee."
"We have to look at this inventory and look at the transition."
"I just want to make sure that you understand that comes from our committee."
"I just want to make sure that there is a sincere intention to really make adjustments to designs or to the placement of the fence if it goes that far."
"Sometimes we might disagree with the administration on policy, but policy is one thing, but the men and women--we support your men and women."
"But once you drill in and you see what is there and the people that live there, and some of them have lived there for generations, you see some historic areas."
"I would like to meet that person. Nobody seems to tell me--nobody wants to take the responsibility, but $35 million is wasted taxpayers' dollars."