Mike Gallagher

I'm very supportive of your desire to develop an inventory of Light Amphibious Warships.

I want to make sure that we acknowledge that that is an issue.

It is an honor to join the subcommittee, and I look forward to working together.

That would be helpful. And I assume you, then--that process of tracking and implementation would be standardized across the services?

Thank you, Chairwoman Speier.

Well, I guess I would direct that same question to the services, because it is bound up in a bigger question, I think, of how do you--how are we measuring the effectiveness of our domestic violence programs.

Today's hearing addresses an issue of supreme importance of domestic violence, which, I think we can all agree, has absolutely no place in our military.

Part of the problem that strikes me is an authorities problem.

Cyberspace is the ultimate gray zone in which operations often do not fit neatly into either traditional kinetic warfighting or nontraditional activities.

I hope to see a budget that recognizes the importance of our Cyber Mission Force; invests in necessary cyber infrastructure, including technology and human capital.

the American people, quite honestly, are fed up with anybody's China-first policy.

I am increasingly concerned that any popular perceptions that the military is taking sides in political disputes or targeting one particular political faction or the other could exacerbate this trend of growing lack of confidence in the…

So while we can all agree that violent extremism of any kind has no place in our Nation and certainly no place in the military.

It would be great if the Biden administration is listening, if they moved with a sense of urgency to nominate a Secretary of the Navy.

So, dear President Biden, if you are listening, please nominate a SECNAV.

I do not think that these should be requirements at all for travel, a test or a vaccine.

I, frankly, don't trust anyone who prioritizes those kinds of profits over human dignity.

Mr. President, you have got to stop this. You are the only person who can call this off.

Mr. President, you have got to stop this. You are the only person who can call this off. Call it off.

That was a low blow, Salud. That was a very low blow.

I thank my colleague from Alabama for his strong leadership as our new ranking member, and I look forward to working with him and the chairman on what is truly still, I think, the most bipartisan committee in Congress. I want to make clear…

Let me state at the outset that this is the most nervous I have ever been sitting in this room with all of you.

I think our view is that it needs to be more expansive than that...

I hope you will see reflected in the final report an attempt to speak in plain language.

I think, among the many recommendations in this report, one that I think is absolutely critical is a similar effort today that is needed to think through the unthinkable in cyberspace.