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

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

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 the Army?

We need to accelerate our own military modernization.

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

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

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

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.

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.