10/06/2009
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"I'm confident that the difficulties we are having will and can be solved, but we have to spend some time and effort on that."
"I've long urged that we focus more on the GMD system, the only system solely responsible for protecting the Homeland at this time."
"I'm pleased that the top line of $8.6 billion includes a modest increase over last year, but I'm concerned that the overall 5-year budget represents a more than $2.2 billion reduction below last year'..."
"I think you've indicated you need more interceptors to facilitate the kind of realistic testing that you believe is necessary."