Pete Domenici

it is now over 60 years ago that a brilliant, charismatic man arrived on the scene in my home State of New Mexico. He cut an odd figure and began a strange recruiting effort for a secret project at an undisclosed location for an…

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?

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…

I'm very glad to say, as a member of this subcommittee, I had something to do with that.

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?

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

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

I thank you very much, and I want to say to the chairman that I would like to join in a more in-depth briefing if you would like that.

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.

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

I just want to say, and then you certainly are welcome to comment, you used the word that we have been 'lucky' for the last 60 years, I think you really mean, we have been fortunate.

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