Ben Nelson: “But we would go ahead and continue to support the borders and our assets and the Iraqi Government and the military?”

You stress the importance of resiliency and the ability to rapidly reconstitute critical satellite capacity if hostile action or a collision would occur.

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?

I was very uncomfortable seeing that $400 million disappear, with the representations that we've made to be fully funded to carry out the program.

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.