"Yet the threat to the homeland is considerably greater this year than last: Why are we waiting for enemies to field capabilities before we build defenses?"
"Were you satisfied that we had sufficient missiles available to the PACOM commander during the escalation in tensions and the threat of medium-range rocket launches by the North Korean regime?"
"Can you help me understand how the budget request supports technology development to build on the efforts of the Phantom Eye, DPALS, the Army's HELMD, the Navy's LaWS, to deploy missile defenses capab..."
"As you know, the United States has had no boost phase missile defense program since approximately 2009, when the Obama Administration terminated the Airborne Laser and the Kinetic Energy Interceptor."
"Aren't there obvious advantages to engaging a missile in this phase of flight, such as precountermeasure and decoy release?"
"I expect additional persons of interest to surface and perhaps additional suspects. This isn't over yet."
"this is not over."
"the President's sequestration idea, which was promoted by the Republican House leadership, the Democrat Senate leadership, and a majority of the Democrats in Congress and a majority of the Republicans..."
"It is inappropriate to make national defense absorb over 60 percent of the cuts in the Budget Control Act, when it is only 16 percent, 17 percent of total Federal Government spending."
"We all have ears. We have got to use them and try to help out when we can, because I think this is a problem that is Congress-inflicted."
"Space is a critical element of our national security, in both peace and wartime environments."
"I am very concerned of the impact of sequestration on national security space programs."