Ben Nelson: “These programs are central to our national security. They deserve full, bipartisan support.”

Can you explain the importance of preserving your operating spectrum in general and how any movement from it should be paid for and coordinated from your perspective, the Navy's?

How are we going to make it work? How are we going to, over a longer strategy, make the dollars work to meet the obligations we've undertaken?

While the administration may be moving forward in anticipation of a new reduction, anything that it's doing is not intended to be unilateral.

I'm very much in favor of moving forward with a follow-on treaty.