It appears the Administration's consultation with HHS and the Tribal-Interior Budget Council was just a check the box exercise.

I don't support the promise of something else down the road in exchange for not funding it now.

What specific steps are you taking to ensure that foreign money is not financing political or issue ads?

Are you going to come back and be a strong advocate to see that that law is passed?

You spoke very idealistically about your company, and you talked about the strong values and you said you wanted to be a positive force in the community and the world.

The biggest thing you can do is to be a strong advocate yourself personally here in Washington.

And I think you have said earlier that you support the Honest Ads Act, and so I assume that means you want changes in the law in order to effectuate exactly what you talked about?

I cannot guarantee that because this is an ongoing arms race.

What I can commit is that we are going to invest significantly because this is a top priority.

However, I believe maintenance of WIPP must be a top priority.

Do you have a forecast of what NNSA plans to spend over the following two years?

Dr. Soofer, have you considered the possible impacts on the existing schedule for the ongoing and planned life-extension programs and the additional costs and effort on top of all the other outstanding requirements across the complex?

The Nuclear Posture Review reaffirms the military requirements for plutonium pit production of 30 per year by 2026.

What is your fiscal year 2019 budget request for support of this important program?

I continue to be a strong supporter of a modest set-aside of funding for Laboratory-Directed Research and Development.

I worked last year with your office on legislation in the fiscal year 2018 NDAA to increase the statutory cap.

I strongly support plans to replace these inadequate facilities with a new LEED Gold building.

Is there value in having three separate laser scaling efforts, or should we be concentrating our resources on two competing lines of effort?