Deborah Lee James: “That is why I am so grateful to really you on this committee, among others, for coming together this year and putting…”

If we return to sequestration in fiscal year 2018, this will exacerbate the readiness problem and set us even farther back.

The loss of assured access to space would be extremely damaging to national security.

There have been actions and then there have been investments, I will say, on the part of China and Russia which are very worrying to the United States.

It takes two to tango, and we can have all the urgency in the world, but we cannot give away the farm if the negotiation does not go well.