"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"Before I go to my colleague from Arizona, General Kehler, do you believe the B61 nuclear bombs serve a military purpose in Europe?"
"Do you believe our extended deterrent assurances to allies lose credibility if we continue to slip deadlines for modernizing our stockpile?"
"We have heard from various disarmament advocates that the B61 LEP is premised on a number of assumptions that may be outdated."
"a. NNSA's final cost estimate for the B61-12 LEP came in at around $8 billion."
"Would you please describe how CAPE arrived at this number?"
"Would it be fair to say that the White House should know what those collection priorities are?"
"The antics in Washington are threatening to unravel the progress our cities have made over the last few months and cause harm to the entire Nation. It is a reckless approach to governing."
"Every day the government is shut down is another day of economic uncertainty. We need to focus on what matters to our communities, our neighborhoods, and our residents."
"the impact of sequestration and how wrong-headed it is for the country, but particularly for your respective service branches."
"I think everybody in this room would agree that the sequestration maneuver was a tactical error made by the Congress in the Budget Control Act that blew up in our face, and we need to acknowledge it w..."