Adam Smith

Looking forward as we're looking at our posture in Europe in light of the changes...

It is not only the United States alone. It is the alliance of 31, soon to be 32 members.

You know, on the modernization piece, the role of information systems and making sure the JADC2 idea of Joint All-Domain Command and Control, making sure that it is integrated, can you describe a little bit how that challenge is going in…

An $860 billion budget, roughly, should be enough to defend this country.

If we are going to deter China, we need to recruit the best and the brightest.

Community engagement should be the centerpiece of our response to aviation noise and emissions.

I believe that we should treat the impact of aviation noise and emissions as environmental justice and health issues.

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.

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

We need to accelerate our own military modernization.

We have to be resolute in our response.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I think a just peace would involve Russia withdrawing from the territory that they have illegally occupied from Ukraine.

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…

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

First of all, it is costing an enormous amount of money in terms of tens of billions of dollars.

This policy is not without risk, I think we all know that.

This is an incredibly important hearing. I want to thank our witnesses for being here.

I think that we cannot do it alone. We rely heavily on our allies, and that is our greatest asymmetric strength.