I think it is safe to say that the USMC has a problem recruiting and retaining women.

Eighty-one percent know that to be the case.

So is this the price that women are expected to pay to serve our Nation in our Marine Corps?

Modernization, I believe, is the most critical thing that we need to do to make sure that we have the Joint All-Domain Command and Control.

We have this logical challenge here in terms of, here is what we would like to do, here is how much money we have.

I think the chairman has done a really good job of pulling those hearings together.

It was recently brought to my attention that three Active Duty currently serving female USMC aviators in training have been retaliated against for reporting their military sexual trauma.

I appreciate the chairman's leadership in getting us started on doing that again this year.

You can't both vote to cut the discretionary budget and then complain at the DOD for not spending enough money.

I have heard a lot of my colleagues talking about how we are just going to do a CR [Continuing Resolution] this year. That would be a complete and total disaster for the United States military, for the ability of this country to defend…

Yesterday, the House voted to go back to the fiscal year 2022 level. All of the Republicans voted for it; no Democrats voted for it.

If you are going to meet the ridiculous number that was set yesterday by the House, you would have to cut everything else by roughly 50 percent.