Rob Wittman

For a country like the United States, a very developed country, we need our own sources of minerals for our economy and for our national defense.

We see ourselves at a tipping point in the history of this Nation's Navy-Marine Corps team.

I do not know any laws of math that allow you to do addition by subtraction.

I think this is something that we must seriously pursue. It is critically important that we have redundancy in space.

There ought to be in the Air Force's plan as part of that a bridge, and that bridge, in my mind, should be the unmanned component, the CCA component.

We are buying, what I would say, aircraft that are not going to be in a place to actually provide us the combat power we are going to need.

I have a hard time figuring out how we are doing addition by subtraction.

I feel very confident that the Army is up for the challenge.

I think a very important part of the Army force structure is the men and women that serve.

Fiscal year 2024 budget requests for brigade equipping has been particularly limited for Army, including a 60 percent reduction in Abrams tanks and a 50 percent reduction in Stryker and Paladin howitzers.

With essentially a flat budget from last year, inflation will provide a 5 percent reduction in real procurement for the Army.

The Army has been particularly harmed by the President's budget request for fiscal year 2024 and force structure and force modernization have served as the bill payer for the President's domestic priorities.

We know that large-scale maneuver forces are applicable in Europe. They are not going to be applicable in the INDOPACOM.

I think we're all very, very steadfastly in support of Ukraine and their effort to maintain independence from this unprovoked and inhumane and barbaric invasion by Russia.

One of my proudest moments in Congress was introducing the Baltic Security Initiative, which provides targeted security assistance to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

I think we are in a good place.

Thank you, Mr. Norcross.

Thanks to Congress we got to our complete warfighting requirement last year of 48.

I have deep, deep concerns about the logistical element.

I think long-range precision fires in that theater are going to be key.

The Water Resources Development Act is necessary legislation that provides for improvements to the Nation's ports, inland waterways, flood protection, ecosystem restoration, and other water resources infrastructure and policy.

Thank you for the many opportunities you have provided members to engage in the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization process.

We have an obligation to our constituents to rethink our infrastructure.

Many of my constituents have also raised their concerns with wastewater and stormwater pollution.

I hope this Committee fully considers this legislation when reintroduced or when in discussions of an Economic Development Administration reauthorization.