How can Congress help you continue this effort and improve the total Air Force readiness capability?
I want them to know that Democrats are ready to continue to work across the aisle on our deficits, fairly and responsibly.
For some reason, we weren't able to streamline the permitting process for rails for projects.
And you all spent, what? Five billion so far?
We go to such extraordinary lengths to protect the lives of our people, and yet by compromising readiness, by compromising morale, by compro...
The impacts will be much more severe across our acquisition programs.
No foe in the field can wreck such havoc on our security that mindless sequestration is achieving.
I would love to speak to you all, if I can, because I am really interested in the procurement and changing the procurement, how we do it.
When Eisenhower said beware of the industrial military complex, man, he knew what he was talking about.
What kind of cost are you incurring because of the permitting process; basically, the time consumption in permitting process?
Let us be clear. If we continue with these arbitrary defense cuts, we will harm our military's ability to keep us safe.