By all other government metrics, New York City is counted as a five-borough element.

Thanks, Secretary Wilson, for what will likely be her last hearing before the House Armed Services Committee.

It is brutal and difficult, and it is just as brutal and difficult for the non-defense discretionary budget to try and do that as well.

There has to be--you know, it is like when the cords get all bundled up, there has got to be some place to start to sort of pull it apart and start working.

This committee does not accept that.

I think is folly. In a $4.75 trillion budget, obsessing over tens of billions of dollars in the discretionary portion of it, be it defense or non-defense, isn't all that helpful from a fiscal responsibility standpoint and is unbelievably…

A ton of money has been wasted. And a lot of the problems, I submit, on the F-35... could have been reduced if we knew what we were spending the money on.

Because it would be a lot easier for us up here to advocate for more money for you if we knew it was being well spent.

the solutions coming out of the White House are making it worse, not better

I want to congratulate General Milley on his nomination to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

on the Korean Peninsula, we are at a high-water mark since the cessation of conflict during the Korean war.