I share the Air National Guard's concerns about the slow pace of fuel tanker recapitalization.

The work that our Customs, and Border Protection, and Homeland Security do at our southern border is essential to keeping families across the country, and in Wisconsin safe.

I am proud that many of these vehicles are made wholly, or in part, in the State of Wisconsin.

I am worried that the Army's management of these programs and their associated industrial base.

In my view, it's not merely that the Navy failed to perform sufficient oversight as you mentioned in your response but that the Navy has directly contributed to the delay by requesting substantial design changes as well as a slowly…

I share the Air National Guard's concerns about the slow pace of fuel tanker recapitalization.

Wisconsin's Industrial Base is something, of course, that is always on my mind.

I am proud that many of these vehicles are made wholly, or in part, in the State of Wisconsin.

I was surprised to hear that the Navy estimates that the Frigate will be delayed by as many as 36 months.

The Army routinely submits a budget with a request for tactical wheeled vehicles at numbers substantially below industry's minimum sustaining rate.

Wisconsin's Industrial Base is something, of course, that is always on my mind.

I remain troubled by the Army's lack of careful management of the industrial base, as I see it.