Ben Nelson: “Well, it could be training, as well.”

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

There is undoubtedly a foundational level of space capability that regardless of force structure size in DOD, regardless of almost any other decisions made from a budget perspective, that space capability has to continue.

I think we all agree on the necessity of implementing Dodd-Frank, and as you have said, in a sound and reasonable time frame and in a sound and reasonable way to deal with reckless speculation.

the approach that places top priority on movement towards nuclear zero and other arms reductions will dominate those considerations