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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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…

America is over 6 weeks into the ObamaCare rollout, and things are just a mess. Folks are still having problems signing up. But even more painful are the letters people are receiving, canceling their health insurance plans. Families and…

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?

This is completely an unacceptable level of security.

You accepted a risk on behalf of every user of this computer that put their personal financial information at risk.

It is time to leave aside the misinformation and fantasy that has seeped into the public debate, and deal with the real world.

Would you please describe how CAPE arrived at this number?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

a. NNSA's final cost estimate for the B61-12 LEP came in at around $8 billion.

At this time, I have no further requests to speak, so I am prepared to close with an urging to my colleagues that they vote in favor of this bill. I yield back the balance of my time.