Will you make a commitment to determine whether such a disconnect exists and, if it does, to overhaul the process?

Yet, under the NGB's new Threat-Based Resourcing Model (TBRM), interdiction comprises less than 25 percent of the weighted variables that are used for distributing funding to the States.

The United States has made clear that the Assad regime has lost its legitimacy and that this crisis has no effective solution without Assad's departure.

should the commander of NORTHCOM be asked to provide input as to where NGCD funding is allocated?

Do you share the belief that we cannot win the interdiction fight to stop illegal drugs from entering the United States along the Southwest Border, and thus we should reallocate NGCD funding elsewhere?

I have also concluded that the weighted variables in TBRM bear very little relation to National Guard core competencies.

Mr. Kendall, are you aware that these four helicopters are still flying today, presently in service with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Air Training Command-Afghanistan (NATC-A)?

I would urge you to expeditiously finalize the contract.

The United States has an obligation to use all of its leverage to pressure Russia and Russian entities to end their support of the Assad regime.

It strikes me, Mr. Kendall, as strange that the Russians can build a helicopter that meets Afghan requirements but U.S. manufacturers cannot.

This always seems like a very mysterious and arcane subject.