Last year, the Senate ratified the Montenegro Accession Treaty to have Montenegro join NATO.

we are actually executing on the nuclear modernization, on the research and development phase of that faster than we thought.

it is imperative that Congress act to eliminate those caps and the risk of sequestration.

Ultimately, Senator--depending on the size of the shortfall, ultimately, it could mean we lose in war.

No, sir. It is a continuity of our nuclear deterrent framework that you see.

the Air Force's unfunded priorities list states that the ground-based strategic deterrent and long-range standoff weapon programs are both expected to run out of funding by the end of the year.

It remains so today.

nothing has done more damage to the United States Air Force than budget uncertainty or sequester over the last decade.

That threat is primarily driving the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review for our country.

They are very concerned that there are a large number of Venezuelans who are being pushed across the border, that are being encouraged to vote in elections.

If the threats from Russia and China and Iran and North Korea, potentially other now or future nuclear states were to grow and our leaders determine that we need to produce more than that number of pits per year, with additional funding…

I think that is an important point. Almost all strategic discussions, certainly strategic arms control negotiations revolve around the bilateral threat between the United States and Russia.