Ben Nelson: “Over the last 2 years I have been advocating benchmarks, measurable goals, to measure progress in Iraq.”

I firmly agree with the importance of oversight because we are in a government-owned/contractor-operated situation, there are substantial liabilities.

The greatest future enhancement for both Homeland and regional defense in the next 10 years is the development of the PTSS satellites, which will provide fire-control quality track data of raids of hostile ballistic missiles over their…

Our troops' force protection has to be among the highest priorities, together with protecting the Homeland.

We cannot just be catching up or trying to stay at par with the rest of the world or otherwise our defenses are down.