Does that bother you that it appears that these people had already made up their minds with no scientific evidence?

I see that as a real danger.

We have a China that thinks long range, that we do a lot of trade with, but is determined to modernize their nuclear weapons system.

The only people I know that can rein him in would be China, if they chose to.

We know there is--the TSA thinks there is 73 potential employees potentially with terrorist ties.

Cyber operations from China are still targeting and exploiting U.S. Government, defense industry, academic, and private computer networks.

You are spending all this money and we know that not every TSA employee is up to standard.

We have a resurgent Russia under Putin, who seems to be very venturesome, to say the least, and nobody to rein him in.

We can't fall behind, can we not?

What does $2 billion mean? We can replace every Humvee in the Marine Corps, increase pay raises for our troops by 2.

We found out in 1945 that the Germans were, overall, much farther advanced than we were, dealing with missiles and so forth.

We can't defend this Nation with yesterday's weapons when you have potential competitors or adversaries moving to the next level.

With threats around the world ranging from ISIL and rogue nations on one end, to increasingly assertive near-peer competitors on the other, it is an important time to focus on innovation and investments in our advanced capabilities.

this amendment offered by my friend from Georgia sounds good, but let's examine it for a little while. This amendment is opposed by the scholars of the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the American Action Forum, the American…

We all want to get rid of the dependence to some extent on the Russian engine. I think that is a given.

We want to get through it, but we don't want to jeopardize anything for American security to do that.

Let's talk about the replacement engine, which this committee has funded the research and development.

If we don't use Russian engines in transition while we're building this American engine, we're forced to use Delta engines through the United Launch Alliance.