I am not inclined to increase your funding 6 percent a buck.

Responses to questions for the record from Representative Gary Palmer (AL-06) from CSB Board Member Manuel H Ehrlich, Jr

I think Secretary Hagel deserves credit for insisting that we make an honest and very serious review.

It just changes the game, doesn't it?

The President's 2016 budget and out-year spending profile represents a good faith effort, given the budget constraints, to modernize all three legs of the nuclear triad.

We have had dramatic reduction in the number [of hurricanes]. We have gone a decade without a Class III or above hurricane.

It is just too many people. You have asked for too many processes and the person sitting here is not an investigator.

It is January 2015, past. We are talking about a number of years ago.

This is an important issue that Senator Lee has spent a good deal of time researching and it relates to the promise the President made that nobody would get citizenship under this program, and it appears that they will.

This is not going to work. You know it and I know it.

What I want the American people to know is the burden placed on you is such that you will not be able to fulfill the basic requirements that we expect to be fulfilled when a person applies to come to the United States.

We, in Congress, and policymakers in Washington, need to understand the reality of the--a nuclear-armed submarine.

That is my understanding. There would not be a plan to do person-to-person interviews.

I am concerned about the situation of how you process the applications.

One of the strategies that China has used has been to create a zone outside the Nation to make it difficult for our ships to inhabit.

The requirement in the Secretary's memo was that they were present in the United States prior to I believe 1/1/2010.

I told my colleagues who offered the Gang of 8 bill I would vote for their talking points.

Experts have told me on that, a process that does not have the person-to-person interview is really a dangerous process and creates a lot of different dangers.