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I am starting to think that instead of the U.S. Congress, we should call ourselves 'Deficits are Us.'

That would be pennywise and pound foolish, in my view.

A one-time OCO infusion doesn't necessarily--in fact, given your sort of by definition long-range program, it would not be necessarily all that helpful.

We would be recommending that the base be looked at.

I commend former Secretary Hagel for initiating it and for your carrying it out.

They are fully complying?

Could you give us an update on the status of the Environmental Impact Statement's (EISs) for the ground-based sites, U.S.-based?

I think we would have to make some adjustments, but I think we----

How is Russia doing in their compliance with New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)?

As technology improves around the world, the ability to hold targets at risk wherever they are on the planet is vitally important to our Nation and certainly to the United States Air Force.

My understanding of this idea is just to send a bunch of OCO money to the Pentagon and say, do with it what you will.

The whole theory of deterrence rests upon rational state actors, and we are now in a world of irrational non-state actors.

Command and control, a crucial part of the nuclear deterrent. How do you feel about where we are in command and control particularly in light of the developing cyber threat?

The Russian stockpile of tactical nuclear weapons. Is this a gap, if you will, in our deterrent?

I note that a lot of our nuclear force calculations are based upon applying the terms of the New START treaty.

Are there practical problems? Please reassure me that we are not going to make something more expensive and difficult by trying to make it interoperable.

The defense budget in 1962 was something like 5-6 percent of GDP. It is now at 3.3.

So we need more of all kinds of ships and submarines in order to meet those military requirements.