Pete Domenici

Because that's going to end up being the question--if we're not going to do this, in terms of a dismantlement and change, what are we going to do?

I do want to say to you that someone like me whose age you would just have to guess, because I'm in such great shape, nobody knows I'm a very old man, and people think I'm 55--pretty good, right?

This administration has a done a terrific job of building down the nuclear stockpile.

If you represent the administration, and if they favor this program like I assume they do.

I found lacking the Secretary of Defense's ideas and yet, this is a defense program as much as it is not.

We better hear from some very big members of this administration who are charged with this problem.

I no longer support providing massive subsidies to Russia's military establishment and believe they should now be expected to pay for their full share of the nonproliferation obligations.

But, I want to say, for a small committee, we have a very big sized plate that is full, not just full of money, but full of some of the most important issues to the American people that any subcommittee, any full committee should have…

If they don't care about the nonproliferation, I'm just wondering why we should.

I continue to believe that this program provides the best opportunity to transform the stockpile.

At that time, you committed to getting us some concepts in legislative language regarding this issue.

Now we really do appreciate your coming down on the side of $3.5, which was the amount we had appropriated.