"I think that there are others that have come before us that have taken a swing at this."
"There is savings that can be found there, and I think we should look and try and do that."
"What these people do is not irrelevant."
"We have to do in this committee is figure out how can we find savings without doing damage."
"if we are going to do this, we are all going to have to figure out some process for saying we are going to bite the bullet, allow the DOD to have greater efficiency despite how it may impact our indiv..."
"We are now back into an era of great power struggles because of what Russia and China are doing."
"There has to be a much more comprehensive approach, if we are going to be successful in creating a peaceful and prosperous world."
"But with your help, we are now going to be able to come out from underneath this and put our readiness back to where you expect it to be..."
"For fiscal year 2019, the agreement that we reached... had a--if you count the DOE [Department of Energy] portion... $647 billion."
"We ought to be able to come up with a nuclear deterrence strategy that costs us a lot less money."
"the potential for surprise in the cyber realm will increase in the next year and beyond as billions more digital devices are connected--with relatively little built-in security--and both nation states..."
"I agree completely with the chairman's opening remarks and will not repeat them. We all know the importance of cybersecurity; I think the chairman outlined it very well."