Our missile defense program and our ability to protect ourselves, is becoming more and more important as the Army continues to have over 50 percent of its ballistic missile defense capability deployed around the world.

The Director of the Office of Management and Budget is one of the most critical positions in our Government, entrusted with overseeing our massive Federal budget during a time of great financial danger.

the threat that North Korea poses to the Asia Pacific region and to the world, I believe, is real.

I agree with a lot of people; we live in a troubled and an unsettled world whether we realize it or not.

Funding for MDA is essential to work with the warfighter to develop, test and field a network global ballistic missile defense that is flexible, survivable and affordable.

Your leadership and the President's leadership has failed to send a clear message throughout the world that you can only come to the United States lawfully; you cannot come unlawfully.

The first thing a law enforcement officer should seek to do is to create a climate that reduces lawlessness, not encourage it.

Do not come. It is unlawful to come. You cannot come to the country without lawful permission.

We'll never be able to field a system that's going to intercept hundreds or thousands of ballistic missiles.

I really think, colleagues, that creating a situation in which States, cities and counties can now impose regulations on building of a nuclear power plant or the decommissioning of it in retrospect is bad policy. I strongly oppose that. I…

I do believe it should never be forgotten that despite all the dangers and lives lost in other energy sources, we have never had an individual lost or killed as a result of a nuclear power generating accident, zero, and one have been made…

Congratulations, Chairman Macfarlane, you took over a difficult challenge.

The nuclear industry, I have to say, represents a vital part of our energy mix.

I just think that is transparent. Now we are going to have a nearby city extort the power company for whatever ideas they may have that may not be in the public interest and result in much less likelihood, in my view, that we could have…

The continued work of the NRC to follow the D.C. Circuit Court's order in Aiken County regarding the licensing of Yucca Mountain is of vital importance.

According to the Energy Information Agency, the industry produces 20 percent of all our electricity and 60 percent of all carbon free electricity.

Mr. Ostendorff, they recommended the process you have adopted for pool storage, a majority of the Commission of four to one voted to adopt that process.

In a week when the President has unveiled regulations demanding a 30 percent reduction from 2005 levels of CO2 by 2030, we surely should be discussing the role that nuclear power can play in reaching those goals.