"How did the Department of Defense get into the business of funding a physical wall for what you all consider is a nonmilitary emergency?"
"Diverting MILCON funding hampers the Department's and Congress' ability to sustain what you all have been stressing is readiness."
"We have to move out aggressively as we go forward."
"I appreciate the emphasis on time and I appreciate your comments in your opening testimony about the need for a more productive relationship between industry--industry beyond sort of the traditional d..."
"I think there is a shared sense on the committee that we need to do more to invest in our infrastructure."
"I would agree with what the chairman said earlier that any cost plus 50 demand on our allies would be--I forget the adjective he used, monstrously stupid, something to that effect, stupendously ill-ad..."
"If our infrastructure is crumbling right now, which we all seem to agree upon, and the Highway Trust Fund is insolvent, what can we do to get this balance right?"
"Eliminating or reducing funding for GLRI would undo years of this program's achievements."
"We do not take threats to our ecosystem lightly."
"Should we consider designating a group like Ansar Allah as a foreign terrorist organization?"
"I would submit that the organization's formal slogan--death to America, death to Israel, curse upon the Jews, victory to Islam--gives us a sense of the general direction."