Dan Sullivan

We need to make this strategic not tactical.

The troops saw that.

Hopefully there will not be another filibuster and hopefully there will not be another continuing resolution.

A number of us want to try and do that again, not filibuster it, but get a no-kidding budget out on the floor, voted on.

Can this committee safely assume that the U.S. will resume routine and regular FONOPs in the South China Sea?

What are the next steps that you think we be taking to respond to Russia's continued provocative behavior

What message do you think the Russians are trying to send us

Express congressional authorization is an important demonstration of national resolve

The President of the United States would first have to ask Congress under its 'War Powers' authority

I introduced the Advancing America's Missile Defense Act of 2017 and we already have 14 bipartisan cosponsors supporting this legislation.

Kim Jong-Un is different from his father and grandfather because he understands that failed in missile tests ultimately produce successful ones.

It is no longer an 'if' North Korea gets a nuclear-capable ICBM that can reach cities like Chicago and New York, it is a 'when.'

Part of what the President has been trying to do, and I am fully supportive, is get the Congress to be supportive of his policy.

I believe that that would clearly trigger Congress' Article One authority with regard to declaring war.

So we need more missile defense capabilities for our Nation?

Is a nuclear ICBM armed in North Korea the most significant threat we face right now as a Nation?

I think, as you know, Mr. Secretary, our country is at its most powerful when the executive branch and the legislative branch are working together on difficult issues.

So we should be working to deepen those alliances and expand them, correct?

Are they testing our NORAD capabilities? I mean, what are they doing?

Please pass on our compliments to the professionalism in the service of the men and women you are leading.

North Korea would not succeed, and North Korea would lose.

The policy of the United States is to prevent North Korea from fielding an intercontinental ballistic missile.

I think getting it out there will prepare the U.S. public for a really challenging national security issue.

It is no longer a matter of if but when North Korea is going to have an intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile.

Given Russia's posture as you described it, I see this need as only increasing.