Mike Rogers

Putin seems to want to expand his empire, and the Russian bear is out of the cage, and it is time we recognize them for what they are doing.

Russia is not someone that is our friend or ally, and we certainly can't take them for their word.

Relentless personal attacks on the President himself provoke a visceral reaction by the American people against the President

The tone of the disagreement, disapproval, is important.

This committee has a responsibility to conduct oversight of the administration's strategy for prosecuting the U.S. counter-ISIL campaign

We need our President to change his rhetoric.

We want to make sure that we have safe and secure passenger screening.

It is not contained, as the president said today. I think it's getting worse and we're going to have to do something about it.

It does tell you that there are still gaps. You know, and the French has a pretty aggressive anti-terrorists bill that allowed them to actually go to phone companies without a warrant and get information about suspected terrorists.

I think they're shutting the borders down. They're shutting -- they're just sealing off the city, closing the city tomorrow.

Please describe what response you would recommend if Russia carries out, in a regional confrontation with the U.S. in, say, the Baltics, their 'escalate-to-deescalate' doctrine and used a single, low-yield nuclear weapon?

Project Atom had an overarching constraint that the force postures the teams recommended must be possible within approximately $35 billion per year in constant 2013 dollars, comprising 4 to 5 percent of the defense budget.

Why doesn't the existing U.S. nuclear force have sufficient capacity for discrimination?

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

The Final Report of the Perry-Schlesinger commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States stated that, 'Working with partners in the intelligence community, the laboratories should be in a position to advise national leadership on…

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.'

Deterring discriminate attacks at the lower end of the nuclear continuum depends critically on the United States having nuclear response options.

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

Russia has moved in a direction in some ways much harsher, particularly in terms of its potential use of nuclear weapons

We may be self-deterred from responding in kind because we would have to go too high up the escalatory ladder

This subcommittee will come to order.

The way to respond, in my view, is NOT to allocate additional resources to nuclear forces but, rather, to invest in advanced capabilities--such as ISR, EW, cyber, lasers, and space defense--that can enable us to maintain our conventional…

I supported the replacement, modernization, or sustainment of the nuclear Triad, the associated warheads, and the nuclear command and control system.

Adaptability, including flexibility is, in my opinion, the single most important metric for measuring the adequacy of U.S. forces for the deterrence of foes and the assurance of allies.