These are all troubling developments that have come to the fore since the 2010 [Nuclear Posture Review] NPR.

I think that the B-61 gives us a flexible response and will allow us to use nuclear weapons in Europe in that scenario.

We must prepare for the worst case.

I look forward to working together with you to maintain our strong bipartisan consensus on the importance of the U.S. nuclear deterrent and the need for continued U.S. leadership on nuclear non-proliferation.

We know Russia has become increasingly aggressive toward the United States and our allies.

I hope we can meet their expectations and get them the modernized triad they so badly need.

My amendment is simple. It would require an executive agency to report any new rule or regulatory action that would duplicate or otherwise overlap with existing agency rules and regulations. So much of government's excess is created by…

The Chinese Government has taken steps to more severely restrict, and in some cases block, U.S. think tanks, non-governmental organizations, media outlets, and Internet companies from operating freely in China.

It is also good to be here with my former colleague on the House side, Mr. Green.

We need money, sufficient financial resources. We also need personnel, so we need to nominate appropriate personnel.

The military will lead the fight against terrorism in the battlefield, but it needs strong civilian partners in the battle against drivers of extremism--lack of opportunity, insecurity, injustice, and hopelessness.

I dreamt, I believed that life was a beauty, and I think that's what I was looking forward to. I awoke and found that life is a duty.

I will do my best to work to try to find out if we can get that number, but I need first to find out about why we can't get it.

But the 702 is such a valuable tool regarding what foreign bad people are trying to do to Americans that I think the intelligence community feels very strongly about it.

This is such a critical tool, I think it deserves full transparency to the level that we can while still protecting sources and methods and classified information.

I want to do that. I think more transparency needs to be offered to the public relative to what this is and what this isn't.

I absolutely understand that this role demands someone who can stand up to the pressures that will be placed upon him, political pressures.

As I've indicated before, I'm going to take that message to the Administration that the question was raised here.