Dan Sullivan

A blind-side antiquities designation certainly is not going to help or get a lot of buy-in in my region.

Let me ask another question that has caused a lot of concern or potential concern with regard to the President's authorities under the Antiquities Act.

If you can continue to do this in the final year of this administration, that would be helpful.

I look forward to working with Senator Markey as we did last year on an amendment that was signed into law just recently by the President with regard to helping move forward the fisheries in Alaska, in Massachusetts, and throughout the…

Well, if you can commit here to continuing to focus on accelerating that, I think that goes to some of the burdens that we have been talking about, certainly a burden on the industry in Alaska.

The decision to manage the F-35 follow-on modernization program within the existing F-35 program does not adhere to acquisition best practices.

I think again a number of us on this committee, bipartisan, believe the 450,000 number is too small.

I certainly believe it is unacceptable risk for the country and, as you mentioned, for our troops.

It is up to this body here, the United States Congress. It is up to the President.

I think doing that again would be important to show a strong across-the-board American resolve.

The ability to 'fight tonight' with regard to North Korea

The ability to continually rebalance our Asia-Pacific force posture in light of our challenges there with China.

We've been asking--a number of us have written the President, have been encouraging--make sure we do--we implement this policy on a routine basis.

The aggression of Russia, which, as you know, Mr. Secretary, General Dunford, is not only Europe, but in the Arctic

I think the American people need to hear that.

What were the ROEs [Rules of Engagement] that enabled our sailors to even be captured?

The increasing strategic importance of the Arctic will be a key part of that.

I think that was very strongly supported by members of this committee on both sides of the aisle.

I see this stalemate between the Navy and the Coast Guard on the issue of icebreakers.

I support General Milley's decision to keep the 4-25th IBCT (ABN) for another year.

I've been supportive of the Department of Defense, Obama administration's missile defense budget.

I assess that they have the ability to put an ICBM in space and range the continental United States and Canada.

Everybody on this committee has been a real strong supporter of that.

It's not going to be enough, because it's not going to be able to outpace the threat.

Do you agree that we need a more robust Arctic strategy--one that does a better job of assessing the new threats in the region and one that reflects Russian as a potential adversary?