Adam Smith actually said...

I want to do everything we can to make sure we don't slip backwards on the progress that we have started to make in rebuilding and repairing...

At the end of the day my priority for the committee are two things: number one, to maintain the bipartisan tradition of this committee.

I want to start by saying it has been a great pleasure working with Chairman Thornberry for--well, for as long as we have been in Congress.

I think the most important part of your statement was at the end there, is that we do not have a strategy to counter what is happening.