Dan Sullivan

I can almost guarantee you that you would get bipartisan support for additional responsibilities or resources that you will need.

Obviously, we focus a lot here on ISIS and al Qaeda and some of the other terrorist groups.

Would you agree that we are clearly in a more direct threat phase with regard to the North Korean challenge to our citizens?

Despite the fact that the president was standing next to our President, that was not an accurate statement.

One thing just for my colleagues here, we are going to be working on a bipartisan enhanced Homeland missile defense bill.

I am not and we need to do a lot, lot more given this threat is going to be on our shores.

I am not convinced at all. As a matter of fact, I do not think we have--I think we need to do a lot more with regard to missile defense.

It undermines U.S. credibility in the world.

We do not have even the remote capability to do this.

This ship is a joke and it is dangerous.

There is concern about the Coast Guard's budget.

I think lifting the budgetary cap on defense without doing it on non-defense means we are going to hurt an awful lot of priorities.

I would just argue the GOP now has all the leverage, the White House and both houses.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Can a test that does not hit the target still be a successful test?

You think we should be doing at least testing once a year?

If we know that is happening, it is my view that we should be focusing a lot on missile defense to make sure that we will have a 99.9 percent chance of shooting one or two or three of those down.

It is going to happen. We have classified estimates of when it is going to happen, but you can say publicly that is going to happen.

We are a leader in NATO. From a EUCOM perspective, that is something--I mean, we work on this every day.

I think his intent is actually to fracture NATO, and I think it is because he does fear NATO.

I couldn't agree more, and I think that's important, so I'm glad the topic has come up.

I think you'd see broad bipartisan support for enhancing your ability to do that.

It's actually cheaper, right? Because if it's 40 percent increase in costs because of the permitting delays, it's not--it doesn't even make sense from an economic standpoint to accept the money.

Well, if any of you want to submit ideas for the record to this hearing, we would certainly welcome those.

They love the delays.