Thank you, Chairman Murkowski. Just a quick question on our New Mexico monuments, Secretary Jewell.

I was pleased that Congress authorized the Manhattan Project National Historical Park to honor important American scientific and military achievements.

Does this mean that once the current program becomes a program of record and achieves Milestone A it will have the conventional version as part of its requirements for engineering past Milestone B, or will the Air Force come back to it…

Ms. Harrington, you are responsible for maintaining the Department's Emergency Operations Center for nuclear terrorist incidents as well as incidents such as fires and releases of radiation at DOE facilities.

As we watch Pakistan modernize its capability... to contain that piece.

I later secured an amendment in the Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizing $15 million for the production of the Iron Dome short-range rocket defense system in the United States.

The goal of this legislation is to give business owners and regional academia, even local government greater ability to interface with those resources.

Are we pursuing anything similar to what Israel has developed in the form of their directed energy Iron Beam system to protect against short-range rockets, artillery shells, and mortar bombs?

Dr. Klotz, my understanding is that Los Alamos is starting to transfer operations from the old Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) building into PF-4 and the new Radiological Laboratory, Utility and Office Building (RULOB).

As you know, technology transfer is incredibly important to me. It is a primary issue for me.

I have always been amazed. Not only is it really important for this sort recruitment and retention piece, but some of the most innovative things that spin off and end up helping our warfighters, really saving lives...

We suck them in and they are there for 30-plus years, which is really the goal.

I am a strong supporter of a modest set-aside of funding for laboratory-directed research and development, or LDRD.

As members of the Choose Clean Water Coalition, we are requesting continued support for programs that are essential to maintaining and restoring clean water to the rivers and streams throughout the Chesapeake Bay region.

Thank you both, Secretary Foxx and Secretary Pritzker, for being here and for the hard work you do for our country.

I think we need to support the President's budget, and frankly, I think we need to do a little better than that.

As usual, Senator Cantwell is always out in front on an important issue like this.

I think we should continue to invest in missile defense programs that are proven and effective.