I hope that during the comment period that we would solicit additional information by virtue of your comments and questions today.

the progress that has occurred so far is really not that acceptable.

Section 1608 of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) sets 2019 as the cutoff date for using Russian rocket engines for national security launches.

You do not want that gap there, do you?

But I want to call your attention to something, that is the fraud and the abuse that is in this program.

As you know, the fiscal year 2015 omnibus contains report language directing you to submit a report with language of legislative changes needed to implement the Country of Origin Labeling, otherwise known as COOL, that complies with…

It is exactly the type of Washington politics the American people are tired of.

I think ultimately it is going to require some sort of legislative fix that if you want to do business in this country, we are about the rule of law, but we do not want to create spaces that are beyond the reach of the law in the United…

I am a little bit of the view that things are getting dicey around the world.

So they are planning and exercising in their war games the utilization of nuclear weapons?

So my view is we should aid them, but if we aid them, we should do it with full malice aforethought.

You do think providing a nuclear umbrella to our allies in the region is something that would have to be considered?

I am, frankly, of the view that there is uncertainty about the United States' will around the world.

I do not believe it is fair to say we are acting on--is the possibility of configuring our nuclear arsenal with more specialized weapons.

I had not thought of either one of those examples before, but I think it is something for us to think about.

Well, it is definitely a complex thing. It seems to me that if you have got now Iran, Saudi Arabia, other nations with nuclear weapons, you have got four Nations perhaps who would use nuclear weapons if their existence is at threat.

I think that any significant reduction in our nuclear capabilities could be misread at this point in history.

I am not sure I agree with that, but that is where we are.