Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, has DOD taken any measures to preserve deployment capacity as a hedge against the increasing threat in t...
the administration made significant changes to the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD).
Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, how does the budget and the QDR budget reflect a move towards energy security?
I appreciate the missile ground defense system and the work you've been doing in Alaska.
Understood.
Very good.
What steps are you taking to enable Iraq to defend itself from external threats?
In terms of the cost estimates that have been released just last week, the TransCanada-Exxon group came back and indicates that we are looki...
I believe that Larry Persily is an excellent choice to take over the agency that we created in 2004 to coordinate the permitting and the env...
He is exceptionally, exceptionally knowledgeable about the problems that we have confronted in past efforts to get a gas line built in Alask...
Just last Friday, 1 of the 2 companies working to build the line, the TransCanada-Exxon partnership, announced in its open season applicatio...
I certainly know from his work in Juneau, for both Republican and Democratic administrations, that he is not one to let partisan pressures s...
Let me ask you a question, Ms. Hoffman, on the transmission aspect.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Persily, you will recall that it was here in this committee back in 2004 that we worked through, and ultimately...
I would hope that the committee would view Mr. Persily and Ms. Hoffman's nominations with favor and, hopefully, move them expeditiously thro...
I think that is an important thing to keep in mind. We always think about those things that we might want to do proactively.
Which, again, is very important to point out.
So when we look at the criteria, I don't know whether you have prioritized within your levels of criteria, but will that remain a high prior...
