Ron Johnson

We're $20 trillion in debt. The projected deficit over the next 30 years is $103 trillion added on top of that.

We can't afford not to invest in infrastructure, we can't afford not to invest in resiliency.

Without objection again.

We all agree that we need to invest money into infrastructure.

The primary goal, I believe, of Federal policy should be to stop the flow or drastically reduce it.

I want to make sure you have the tools in your toolkit to keep this Nation safe.

We have spent a lot of money over there, which goes back to a couple points.

We can be of some help stabilizing things, but it is not our responsibility to rebuild everybody's country.

Look, we are out of money. We are $20 trillion in the hole.

In hindsight, would that have stabilized the situation? Would that have been enough U.S. troops to help stabilize--

We support exploring an incentives-based inventory management program.

Higher premium subsidies for a risk management program are very important to our members.

I first introduced legislation 2 years ago with Chairman Barrasso requiring the Department of the Interior to reissue the respective 2011 and 2012 delisting decisions for Great Lakes and Wyoming gray wolves.

I strongly agree with what I have heard directly from Mr. Holte and other stakeholders... that all future gray wolf listing decisions should be made by experts in the field, not judges in courtrooms.

As an avid outdoorsman, I place a high value on preserving the environment for future generations.

Cyber warfare, when it comes to political interference, is just a new tool.

I will just remind my colleagues that, in the last Congress, our European Subcommittee of this committee did hold a hearing on political assassinations in Russia.

The migrant flow from the Middle East into Europe is, on its face, destabilizing.

To say that it is truly a reflection of how we are graded at the end, I do not know that that is a completely true statement.

Diplomacy follows facts on the ground, right?

Who is going to hold the territory in Syria so that Assad just does not flow right back in there?

Again, to say the Syrian Democratic Forces, when we had the debate over the Syrian Authorization for Use of Military Force, who is leading it?

So do you think we will need substantially less than 70,000 total combined troops to take over Raqqa?

So that is an 8-month effort with more than 70,000 troops. Is Raqqa going to be easier or more difficult than Mosul?

How much longer is that going to go on? Just a quick estimate.