Mike Rogers

We want an engine to be able to get our critical missions into space in a timely fashion.

I am committed to ending our reliance on Russian rocket engines for national security space launch.

Before I get started, I think we all ought to take note today that this is the day of the funeral, those nine families in South Carolina. And it is a real tragedy.

Good morning. I want to welcome everybody to our Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing on 'Assuring National Security Space: Investing in American Industry to End Reliance on the Russian Rocket Engines.'

Deputy Secretary Sherwood-Randall, DOE and NNSA face an array of longstanding problems with governance and management.

Please give us a status update on these programs. Are you confident they will finish on time and on budget?

What is the long-term plan for this transfer--will it continue indefinitely?

Is NATO going to revisit the basic assumption of the DDPR that Russia is partner? When?

Our national security demands that our military be responsive and agile to new or emerging threats as they appear.

We need to be making some decisions and doing something proactively.

I thank the gentleman. I look forward to supporting the bill today and urge the House to do the same to get this vital bill passed and to the President for his support of our men and women in uniform.

I thank the gentleman for that explanation, and I hope he will let me know if there is anything the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces can do to make sure that the Department knows that the acquisition strategy needs to be delivered to the…

We are fighting to preserve our very way of life and are doing everything in our power to prevent total eradication of an essential U.S. industry.

In short, the United States citrus industry as you know it, is in extreme trouble.

People come in thinking of Frankenfoods or something like that. But there is a lack of education on what is going on.

There is a document that the University of Florida extension has put out that was a survey of growers on their willingness to adopt GMO technology. And the growers were overwhelming in support of doing that.

The United States citrus industry, as you know it, is in extreme trouble.

The Department is still in the very early stages of harnessing the power of our Nation's cyber enterprise.

Last year, Secretary Hagel provided a report... assessing the requirements for plutonium pit manufacturing.

Why did the Administration choose to remain with the triad--explicitly rejecting the elimination of one or more legs of the triad?

Did the Nuclear Posture Review and its related implementation study examine in detail various options for the structure of U.S. nuclear forces, including a dyad and potential monad?

President Obama's Nuclear Employment Guidance rejects the notion of de-alerting U.S. nuclear forces while continuing to examine options to reduce the role of 'Launch under Attack' in U.S. planning.

At a tipping point where we not only need to continue to build on the defensive capability, but we have got to broaden our capabilities

In my opinion, this Managed Inclusion program is a reckless practice to take people who have not been through the proper vetting...

Fortunately, in September of last year, the Commission finalized a rule change that recognized Congressional concern.