Jeff Sessions

I think that is somewhat--I think that is accurate.

I share Senator Hatch's views very, very deeply, and I am very troubled by this White House and the Attorney General in failing to defend DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act.

The Solicitor General should have told the Attorney General, 'We cannot not defend that statute. It does not comply with the law.'

I spent 15 years in the Department of Justice. My view was that a Solicitor General would never participate in what this Department's Solicitor General has participated in, the failure to defend the perfectly defensible statute.

Shouldn't the Air Force be required to demonstrate the reliability of these systems before asking Congress to authorize buying these assets in bulk?

The Air Force has proposed an efficiency initiative to adopt a new method for acquiring satellites called Evolutionary Acquisition for Space Efficiency (EASE).

We must ensure that the taxpayers' money is spent wisely and that capabilities are delivered without delay or extra expense.

The Air Force is dependent and required to provide the entire support now that NASA has reduced its play.

The cost for space launch vehicles has risen.

We have, in space, the most capable program in the world by far.

We're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend, that cannot and will not continue.

People do not appreciate the extent to which our space capabilities help sea, air, and land teams.

We have to look at these things as we go forward and I think it's very appropriate to ask FCC to look at it hard.

Agreements, codes of conduct, tend to constrain our military.

Senator Sessions. General O'Reilly, the fiscal year 2012 budget included a $5 million efficiencies-related reduction for Israeli missile defense cooperative programs.

General O'Reilly, will affordability targets be reported to Congress in the BAR?

DOD is reviewing its hedge strategy, including ensuring a sufficient hedge to a potential delay to the SM-3 IIB interceptor.

General O'Reilly, how will programs be held accountable for meeting affordability targets?

I am concerned that the schedule for development and deployment of the SM-3 IIB is overly optimistic.

It seems quite clear that there will not be enough money in future budgets to cover the costs of the weapon system programs currently underway.

We don't need to stop, allow our adversaries to develop more sophisticated missiles, and then all of our efforts have been not productive.

So it's going to take some effort to get that under control.

I think you've indicated you need more interceptors to facilitate the kind of realistic testing that you believe is necessary.

More I think is needed to ensure the capability that we have works to the advanced degree that you'd like it to operate at.

We need to be able to go forward with it and we don't need to stop short of the number of interceptors we need in the ground and prepared.