the comment that funding a border wall out of the Department of Defense is also unbelievably irresponsible.

no greater authority on that subject than current chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said exactly that.

You have served your country incredibly well, do an outstanding job, and we have always had a very open dialogue.

As I like to put it, they want to make the world safe for kleptocratic autocracy.

Thank you, and I want to welcome our witnesses, members of the audience, members of the committee.

Please provide an accounting of all expenses incurred by the Department of Defense--specified by appropriation, budget activity, and sub-activity group--for all operations and support for DOD and other Federal activities along the southern…

I want to do everything we can to make sure we don't slip backwards on the progress that we have started to make in rebuilding and repairing the military.

At the end of the day my priority for the committee are two things: number one, to maintain the bipartisan tradition of this committee.

I want to start by saying it has been a great pleasure working with Chairman Thornberry for--well, for as long as we have been in Congress.

I think the most important part of your statement was at the end there, is that we do not have a strategy to counter what is happening.

We do not have an industrial policy.