Mike Rogers

Unfortunately, the CFTC's first shot at the 'special entity' rule contained onerous restrictions on ordinary risk management activities.

Let us not punish market participants who played no role in the financial crisis.

We should not be further squeezing American agriculture and manufacturing with increased costs of complying with rules such as 1.35, if we can avoid it.

If not corrected, the regulation of these transactions will have the effect of increasing companies' costs of doing business.

The CFTC must not arbitrarily change the swap dealer registration de minimis level without a formal rulemaking process.

Absent this funding, will costs increase in the long-term for either NNSA or the Navy?

What goes on at this facility and why does the budget request include funding for recapitalization of the Spent Fuel Handling facility out there?

The President has made clear that he will not accept a budget that reverses our progress by locking in sequestration going forward.

How is NNSA holding the people and organizations responsible for this incident accountable?

How is the shutdown at WIPP sending ripple effects across the NNSA and DOE-EM complex?

Please update us on the status of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico subsequent to the events early last year that caused a radiation release and shutdown of the facility's underground operations.

Can you assure us NNSA can defend against all of these threats and prevent the escape of sensitive information?

Congress can and will continue to provide guidance, direction, and momentum.

Many of the Mies/Augustine recommendations align with similar efforts this committee has undertaken in the past: reducing transactional oversight, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and improving cost estimation and program management.

This is the correct priority, but we must remember that fulfilling the nuclear deterrence mission is the shared responsibility of both DOD and DOE.

What happens to NNSA's programs if you are hit with sequestration in FY16?

Deployment of Aegis Ashore (AA) provides a dedicated system that would provide a continuous missile defense capability.

Japan already has Aegis ships for the defense of its territory from North Korea ballistic missiles.

What is the way ahead on M-O-K-V? How important do you think it is and can we move faster on this program?

The intelligence community has remained consistent over the years that the Iranians may have an ICBM capability by 2015.

There has been quite a bit of media reporting on the possibility of deploying missile defense assets to South Korea and Japan and China's objections to this.

Chairman Thornberry and Ranking Member Smith are actively engaged across the whole committee with looking at how to reform the acquisition process in DOD, which we all agree is broken.

Would you please also get back to me in the next couple of weeks as to how much you think it would cost if we were to take one of our Patriot batteries which is currently being utilized and move it to Deveselu.

I would like to request that, if you could in the next couple of weeks, kind of get me some information about what you think it would cost to make those modifications to that site.

Is the DOD still evaluating the appropriate contracting structure in the future, in terms of launch services, capabilities, and infrastructure, to maintain assured access to space and have fair competition?