Mike Rogers actually said...

"This strategy, as described by Moscow, in fact, is a nuclear first-use strategy..."

"I believe that the 'overarching constraint' set by the Project Atom study the 2025-2050 nuclear posture should be possible within 'approximately $35 billion per year in constant 2013 dollars.'"

"The principal role of U.S. nuclear weapons is to deter nuclear attacks against the United States and its allies."

"we want to deter the Russian Federation from believing it can get anything useful out of a first-nuclear-use threat"