As much as I would love on this committee to be able to pull defense out and say we can ignore everything else, we aren't just members of the defense committee.
I don't agree that we can somehow pull defense out of the entire rest of the Federal Government.
The uncertainty that has accompanied the defense budget has made it very, very difficult to operate.
I will not vote for a defense continuing resolution for the rest of fiscal year 2017. It would simply do too much harm.
We should give you a clear budget, every year, clear appropriations to give you the freedom to implement that as is necessary.
The problem, to my mind, continues to be that the Baghdad government is not inclusive enough of the Sunni population.
I personally believe that we need to consider lethal defensive weapons for Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin's goal is to make the world safe for autocratic dictatorships and to undermine the values that we hold dear in this country, ...
We need changes, we need a new strategy, we need a new idea of how to approach this.
It is politically difficult for the administration given what they campaigned on; but I don't see any way around it.
More revenue is certainly an option, and I understand campaign promises, but all of the campaign promises... don't add up.