But 2 years is enough.

I am in shock.

We have held up our end of the bargain. Since that time, this subcommittee has appropriated $55 billion for weapons.

I think to an extent we sacrifice our real security needs for more warheads that we do not need.

The so-called improvements to this weapon seem to be designed to make it more usable to help us fight and win a limited nuclear war.

The purpose of these weapons is to provide deterrence so that any other nation or sub state actor who has a nuclear weapon will be persuaded not to use that against the United States or against our allies.

I remember the pictures in the San Francisco Chronicle and other papers when we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I have supported the efforts to work with hospitals and medical facilities and industrial users to replace existing devices.

In the December 2016 Defense Science Board report, they called for integrating nuclear and non-nuclear capabilities for something called cross domain deterrence.

My view has been, and I have been in this business as I indicated earlier, in the military and now here for over 40 years, is that a nuclear war cannot be fought and must never be fought.

We do not have a no first use policy. And this is geared toward Russia.

How do you reconcile making it more usable with deterrence?

Our nuclear propulsion program has 60 years of exceptional performance, safe, reliable, effective operations.

Letter dated June 14, 2017 to Chairman McClintock and Ranking Member Hanabusa from the Alaska Wilderness League...

If we don't succeed in Afghanistan, it will be because of the ISI in Pakistan.

I will trust you and trust this administration that we take a realistic view and sometimes that means biting the bullet.

Pakistan is acknowledged by most of the people I have dealt with as the source of terrorism in that part of the world.

Let me just note for the record that this increase in spending levels especially in the last 8 years, has not resulted in a more peaceful world or a more secure situation for the people of the United States of America.