Rob Wittman

I firmly believe the United States military remains the world's best, I am concerned about shortfalls in readiness.

The young men and women that are on our flight decks, in our squadrons flying those missions are the best that I have ever seen.

I think we might have less success, we might have more losses.

Where does that lead us as far as risk? And when I talk about risk, it is survivability of pilots in those high-stress and high-end conflict scenarios.

Do we believe that that is the right way to manage these particular areas?

Thank you for holding today's hearing on national marine monuments and sanctuaries.

My concern is that the National Marine Sanctuaries Act does not contain any legal protections for fishermen.

Do you believe that is proper?

Is that the right way to go about managing this?

Thanks for your service, and thanks for your leadership.

I look forward to engaging all of our members on what I believe is the bipartisan committee in Congress.

The capacity to be able to do that adds value, brings flexibility, and it confounds the enemy's belief that they might be able to attack us and get away with it.

In order for a bomber to deliver gravity--to deliver a gravity bomb it must fly over or approximate to the target.

If the F-35 ramp rate for the Marine Corps is anemic, then I would say that the ramp rate for the Navy, the ramp rate has no pulse.

Very good, our job is to authorize and fund that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us today.

To me, that is a very, very deeply concerning issue.

I just think it is important for members to understand this point.

We would remain at platoon-level readiness funding under the CR, as well as putting further constraints on our modernization programs.

I would say to the gentleman that, when the Navy asks for the ability to reduce its organizational structure to make itself more efficient to do the things that it needs to do to indeed fulfill the role in the Asia Pacific, maybe we ought…

As the designee of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Forbes), I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 8055. The Acting CHAIR…

We all take that challenge seriously and I know, I know and am confident that we will face that challenge.

The resources we have been allocating to that critical function of government have been woefully inadequate

We are not currently providing our Navy with the resources it needs to do what we ask

How does that affect the Fleet Replacement Squadron where you go to get aircraft and the flying hours that have to be accrued there to make sure our pilots have the sea time...