I applaud the Committee's efforts to produce a strong, bipartisan FAA Reauthorization bill and hope we can pass this crucial legislation in a timely matter to help families, workers, and communities across the nation.

We need to accelerate our own military modernization.

China is not going to give us 10 or 20 years to prepare for conflict.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor or against those who have some property against those who have none at all.

We need to know what is coming at us. We need to be able to see what the threats are.

It is an outstanding thing that all 435 Members are participating in this process.

More funding will be needed to ensure these voices, the voices of regular Americans, get heard...

the budget hasn't grown since 2009 for our committee and, in particular, the importance of the staff as the size of the defense budget and the oversight responsibilities have grown.

the Pentagon has not done a full audit, as we all know, which means literally they don't know for sure exactly all of the assets that they have.

Our job is to try to make sure that they get to the point where they can do that audit.

We are also acutely aware of the fact that we do not want to get into a direct conflict with Russia.

The principle of sovereignty and the principle of exactly what you just stated, not allowing a country like Russia or China to think that they can simply grab territory by force, is core to our own security and to the security of the world…