"the challenge going forward, which we have talked about a lot in this committee is, as always happens with us, so you are consistently asked to do more than you have the resources to do"
"how do we figure out maybe to get more resources, how do we figure out to perhaps change what the strategy is to better match those resources"
"I worry about what that means in terms of what our actual plan is and our ability to execute it."
"We just--you know, we want this money. We don't want to put it on the budget because we, you know, have budget caps to deal with, so we are going to call it emergency funding so it can be, you know, q..."
"It doesn't say anything in there about money for a southern border wall, and yet we are going to take the money out of our programs, put it in there, and then come back to us and say, oh, it is an unf..."
"We are here this morning to hear the posture hearing on the Army's budget request for fiscal year 2021."
"We are going to go ahead and get started. We have a full committee hearing this morning to discuss the fiscal year 2021 national defense authorizing budget request for the Department of the Navy."
"We are specifically concerned--and I know Congressman Courtney will express these concerns better than I can--about some of the reductions in the shipbuilding accounts."
"What do you need to do differently? Where are you short assets? Where can assets be transferred from?"
"Hearing from you how you prioritize where you want the money spent is going to be enormously important."
"I am interested in--we have been talking about a 355-ship Navy I think for the entire time that I have been in Congress."
"I respect and appreciate that work. I look forward to continuing to work with you."