And there was a recent GAO report that states that cyber attacks could cost our economy $100 billion annually in the near future.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I want to thank you and the Ranking Member for holding today's hearing on a very important and oftentimes overlooked subject, cybersecurity, which, as we've heard, has great consequence for our security and our…

I think we have to remember that we're under constant attack. Our critical infrastructure and the Internet backbone of our economy remain extremely vulnerable to these cyber attacks.

Mr. President, earlier this week, as a result of multiple flight cancellations due to the significant snowstorm in Washington, DC, I was unable to vote on Executive Calendar No. 468, the nomination of Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr. to be United…

Combating foreign corruption is a key U.S. foreign policy objective.

I am very interested in any concept that helps preserve and extend freedom of action in the PACOM AOR.

What are your views of this successful test of the Airborne Laser program, and do you think it marks the beginning of a revolution in military affairs?

The new QDR directs the Navy and the Air Force to develop a new joint Air-Sea Battle concept for defeating adversaries.

What's your view on this strategy by Iran, and how it would affect our ability to project power in the Middle East; specifically, in the Gulf of Iran and the Strait of Hormuz?

I'm interested in what your views are with regard to the activities by the Iranians to pursue some of these anti-access and area-denial strategies.

But why is it necessary to have another study?

The 2006 QDR had suggested, I think, fielding a new bomber by 2018.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. General, Admiral, General, thank you very much for being here and thank you for your outstanding service to our country.

General Cartwright indicated--and this is quick--that we run the risk of making the triad a diad if we go below 800 delivery vehicles in the follow-on START.

We keep making more and more demands and resources get more and more constrained all the time.

I have long expressed the fear that it would be proposed by the administration in effect as a way to negotiate the bomber leg of the nuclear triad away.

I do think it's not only a national security issue, but it's also something that I think in terms of the economic security of the country is really critical.

Last September the Manchester Guardian reported that the President has rejected the Pentagon's first draft of the NPR as being too timid.