Deborah Lee James: “The era in which the United States could project military power without challenge has ended.”

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.

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

That is why I am so grateful to really you on this committee, among others, for coming together this year and putting together a bipartisan budget agreement.

I think virtually everybody agrees that we would like to, as the United States of America, not be so reliant on a Russian engine going forward into the future.