I am glad that we are--there are so many people out there and they think that we are just--that Israel is always the beneficiary of everything that goes on. That is not true at all.

When we were initially starting, the first Obama budget in 2009, it cut missile defense by $1.4 billion.

They are catching up or in some areas even passing us.

Our potential adversaries are pursuing advanced weapons development not seen in decades.

Isn't that what we went through for such a long period of time, where you had Russia--or USSR--making the statements and preparing themselves and wanting to outdo us--I mean, just for the image?

I was fortunate enough to be over in the Ukraine, back when Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk were successful in their parliamentary elections, and the first time in 96 years there's not one Communist in the Parliament.

Do you think Putin really needs provocation? Or isn't he going to do it anyway?

On February 9, 2016, the Supreme Court issued a historic stay, which puts the Clean Power Plan on hold...

no State should fear any penalty for heeding the Court's decision.

the defense of the American people shouldn't have a pricetag.

Somehow there is this perception that if you are a landowner or a rancher, somehow you do not want to conserve. That is so wrong.

The fiscal year 2016 NDAA directed deployment of a long-range discrimination radar or other appropriate sensor capability to support the defense of the Homeland against Iran by 31 Dec 2020.

I was really coming here for two purposes. One was to learn a little bit more about Alaska and the other was to let this committee and the witnesses know that the problems you have up there are not unique to Alaska.

the problem--one of the problems that we're having is that we don't--we have the wrong priority on defending America.

the highest court in the country has serious reservations on the legal soundness of the rule.

What are we doing to protect our missile defense capabilities against a cyber-attack?

What is the status of the new Long Range Discrimination Radar in Alaska--funding, planning and timeline?

I think the community works very well together on the issue of drug intelligence and facilitating interdiction.