Ben Nelson: “What are your plans to address the issue of aging equipment, including the need to replace the Vietnam-era helicopters?”

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

Let me add my thoughts. We ask you to reduce budgets, to watch the growth, and then when you come before us after you've done it, then we question why you've done it and whether you've done it right or not.

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

Hard choices had to be made.