Joe Manchin

Is there nobody in our Government, in our Defense, Pentagon, that's responsible?

I did not then, and what I'm hearing from the region further supports my belief.

What--do you all confirm--I mean, do you all agree with the reports of how much weapons and the lethal volatility of these weapons being used against us?

Every day, the Triad deters potential adversaries, assures allies, and preserves stability with countries that pose an existential threat to the United States.

Congressional approval of this initiative is vital to enabling further integration at flying training units.

We will need Congressional support on various Total Force initiatives, as many of the initiatives are groundbreaking.

The Guard has accomplished every task assigned to them by combatant commanders.

Cost is but one of many criteria in determining an appropriate Active Component/Reserve Component (AC/RC) force mix.

Reports emerged the Department of Defense is unable to account for more than $500 million of military assistance to Yemen.

The President's Budget (PB) takes a critical step toward recovering the needed funding levels that will allow us the stability we need to be successful.

I am just concerned about the global military presence and the buildup of China and Russia.

We always said we want to get rid of sequestering. Get a budget. That is up to us.

We have to answer to them also, our constituents, and all of us here who are elected and go back, how we are spending their tax dollars and are we getting the best bang for our buck.

There has to be a better, more effective, efficient way.

There is not a West Virginian I know who does not support the military and DOD.

In closing, I want to ask you, General Kelly, to pass on the deepest thanks and gratitude of the members of this committee to the military men and women conducting detention operations at Guantanamo Bay.

We cannot afford to go on treating our own neighborhood as our lowest geographic priority which only receives the level of resources and focus that it deserves when it erupts into crisis.

What do you believe should happen if the Department of Defense misses that deadline?

I support the increase of ground-based interceptors from 30 to 44 by 2017, but we need to be assured that the planned improvements to the ground-based midcourse defense system will stay ahead of the ballistic missile threats to our…

I think the DOD generally has kind of woken up to more recently as we have Iraq and Afghanistan war vets.

Let us be just as conditions-based, and let us not grab onto some bizarre, incompetent budgetary theory.

But when we look at you all's staff, your staff keeps growing and growing and growing, even though you talk about reduction-in-force.

The finances of our country is the greatest threat we face.

Our partners know that we are a really great nation, and we're with them for the long haul.

Additionally, I remain troubled by the lack of appropriate and persistent U.S. support and engagement in the Western Hemisphere.