It is incumbent upon all of us to make decisions that will ensure our Nation is prepared to confront any threat.

I will because I think we have to.

I did vote against it, and I was going to explain why I voted against it.

Of course I will because that is the intent of our budget and DOD.

I believe that providing the necessary resources for nuclear modernization of the triads should be a national priority.

We are not going to unilateral disarm. Verifiable. It has to be bilateral. It has to be negotiated.

I support Israel, but my first interest, because I take an oath of office to the Constitution of the United States, not to a president, not to a party, not to Israel.

I'm a United States senator, not an Israeli senator.

Many people see the administration's public commentary in the aftermath of Benghazi as misleading.

I don't care to be lectured to about the need to be bipartisan, particularly in such an intolerant and uncivil tone.

This incentive auction, if it is successful--and I expect it will--will accomplish a number of goals that will benefit consumers.

DOD, I think in many ways has been bloated... It has gotten everything it's wanted the last 10 years and more.

Yes. That I think that's to his political advantage to do that, because then he gets to blame us, set up the 2014 elections by us being the bad guys.

Yes, that I think that's to his political advantage to do that, because then he gets to blame us, set up the 2014 elections by us being the bad guys.

Most of us aren't going to support that. But I could certainly understand Tom's political strategy of trying to take it off the table, and then the president may get serious about dealing with all of the other financial problems we have.

But the reality is, as a Republican who my very core principles are, you know, lower taxes, limited government, to just take a solo tax -- or vote on a tax increase with not having everything else there to kind of, you know, give us the…

Thank you, Mr. Walden, for your able leadership over the last 2 years.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing on receivers.