I hope that you can help the Air Force stop being so worried about being sued and start making the right decisions.

Do you know how Open Skies fits into the Russian overall collection strategy?

Should we view the ITWAA and NC3 capabilities as legs of the TRIAD? Have we been paying enough attention to ITWAA and its enablers?

I think North Korea needs to know that we may not be the best of all times in creating a new government, but we are pretty good at taking one down.

Ultimately, we have to use these powerful weapons--hopefully not these--but powerful military force to defend the interests of the United States and the world.

They need to know that there are things we will not accept, and their existence is at stake.

I was dismayed by the President's announcement on Tuesday of his plans to close the Guantanamo detention facility.

Madam Chair, we have talked about this privately before, but does the Fed still use the Phillips rule in a lot of its deliberations?

So talk to me about what needs to be done at the Fed and elsewhere to address long-term unemployment and to foster policies that transform economic growth into growth for hardworking families.

General Klotz, you submitted a plan last September on three projects where NNSA was considering using public-private partnerships to build new, modern buildings and get out of some of these ancient facilities.

baseline is required. So I would ask you to try to expedite that if you could.

Is the Obama Administration 100% committed to the 2025 date for a first production unit for this warhead?

The letter points to the problem we discussed--decaying NNSA infrastructure--as well as many other problems that require significant funding to address.

General, I know we share the same goals here.

General Klotz, I want to revisit with you my theme of setting NNSA up for the future.

I believe the Fed should be independent, but I do not think that you are totally independent.

You want to strengthen it. Is that your basic premise?

Instead of working to strengthen our economy and to bolster the financial system safeguards, some Republicans want to unleash the forces that almost destroyed the economy in the first place.