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

What I would like to know is what I asked last year: What are the next steps? How are we going to convince the Russians that we do mean business--if we do mean business?

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.

Under what circumstances is Russia, under the New START treaty, required to exhibit a new type of missile to the United States?

Were any of those responses ever approved? If so, what is the plan to implement those responses?

What are the economic activities of the Russian firms Novator and Titan in the U.S.?

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

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.

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.

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

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…

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

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.

This subcommittee has spent a lot of time focused on the need for a responsive U.S. nuclear infrastructure.

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

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…

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

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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?