Mike Rogers

I very much support directed energy and I support what Mr.

I support the additional funding of the GMD program that you have requested for a new redesigned kill vehicle and new investments in discrimination.

We see increasing signs of Putinist intervention in Estonia and Georgia.

Weakness is a choice. I choose peace through strength.

It appears the fiscal year 2014 budget request cuts your directed energy budget to approximately $13 million. Can you tell me, is this a sufficient budget request in your opinion?

I am concerned with Russia's behavior threatening our allies, including the illegal invasion of Ukraine and its violation of the INF Treaty.

We simply cannot allow Vladimir Putin to continue to think he can get away with whatever he wants without consequences.

When this President was elected he promised to reset with Russia, suggesting that the previous administration was to blame for a negative relationship with Russia as well as the rising of the seas and various other straw men.

Would you say that adversaries have also recognized this advantage, and if so, are there countries that have weaponized or are in the process of weaponizing space with systems that threaten our capabilities?

I know Congress always ignores Presidential budgets and we are going to ignore this one.

This is a very vital Department to our country. I know you take that seriously.

It appears that the Russian military now controls the Crimean peninsula. Its aggression is a threat to Ukraine and the region's peace and stability. Russia's latest action is yet another indicator that Vladimir Putin's hegemonic ambitions…

So if I'm newspaper reporter for fill in the blank, and I sell stolen material, is that legal because I'm a newspaper reporter?

There have been discussions about selling of access to this material to both newspaper outlets and other places.

But when she arrived at the VA hospital, she was denied the ability to hand out those cookies because the packaging had the word 'Christmas' on it.

Current DOD policy states that service members can share their faith or evangelize but must not force unwanted intrusive attempts to convert others of any faith or no faith to one's beliefs.

What steps is China taking to increase their Space Situational Awareness (SSA)?

What are the national security implications if our military lost access to space capabilities in a conflict with the People's Republic of China?

I believe there's a question to be answered there. I don't think it was a gee whiz luck event that he ended up in Moscow under the handling of the FSB.

I believe there's a reason he ended up in the hands, the loving arms of an FSB agent in Moscow. I don't think that's a coincidence number one.

I am very concerned about the security status of the Olympics. I do believe that the Russian government needs to be more cooperative with the United States when it comes to the security of the games.

H.R. 624, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, has passed the House.

We have gone through some 4,000 different classified cables leading up to the event, talked to people on the ground during the event, done the postmortem on the event through the committee investigations sometimes -- that al Qaeda was not…

Iran and North Korea were working together to test engines for inter-continental ballistic missile.

Don't you think you had the obligation to tell the American people that we're going to put you in the system, but beware, your information is likely to be vulnerable?