It has been reported that Ukraine has asked for the deployment of a PATRIOT battery to defend its territory. Is there any good reason not to deploy it?

Can the U.S. or its allies afford not to defend itself from such a escalatory use of nuclear weapons?

What should the Congress do if the administration continues to hide these matters from it?

I don't think the American people even realize that we have the ICBM and SLBM threats that are there and without adequate resources to protect us.

China and Russia seem to want to have their cake and eat it too: they are both modernizing and growing their nuclear forces.

The administration is refusing to brief this committee, including its chairman, on the facts of its proposals to Russia to make agreements on our missile defense deployments.

Withdrawing from treaty is one strong possibility.

Russia is developing new missile defenses... Why do we continue to take this position?

President Obama said in 2001 that 'I don't agree with a missile defense system.'

In 2009, the administration sent Poland a PATRIOT battery, with no missile interceptors. The Poles called this deployment a 'potted plant.'

We have spent years trying to convince Russia that our missile defenses aren't about them.

I am a strong advocate that the United States needs to remain the superpower that it is.