Mike Rogers

Why should we approve an authorization that doesn't give you, General Dempsey, and you, Secretary Hagel, the ability to do what it takes to win the war?

I believe that the indecisiveness at the White House has led to a lot of the problems and the challenges that we are facing today.

It's just a matter of the Secret Service upping their game to make sure that they can maintain that every detail matters.

We are hearing from some of our Tennessee insurance carriers, they are going to have a 19 percent increase in the health insurance premiums in 2015.

I continue to hear from people in Tennessee who lost their health plan. They liked it. They can't keep it.

Having an insurance card is not the same as having medical care.

Did that theory work out any better for us that any of the Vice President's other foreign policy recommendations?

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

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

Withdrawing from treaty is one strong possibility.

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?

Considering the millions of dollars that the Congress has authorized for Iron Dome, the Congress should request data on the performance of Iron Dome from Israel.

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.'

What is the impact, then, of the Obama administration terminating all of our boost phase missile defense programs in 2009?

We deploy missile defenses to deal with Chinese anti-ship ballistic missile capabilities, don't we?

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

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.

What is the damage down to our alliances when we make such silly-looking deployments?

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

Do you believe the administration owes it to the people's representatives in Congress to keep it informed on these matters?

Does it make sense that we deploy cruise missile defenses to protect the Capital from Russian cruise missiles, but we will not develop and deploy missile defenses to protect the American people against Russian ballistic missiles?

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

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

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.