03/04/2008
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"How confident are you that the remaining $3 billion will be sufficient to conduct three projected warhead life extensions while also bolstering overall stewardship, surveillance, and dismantlement eff..."
"If ratification of the New START treaty is to serve rather than undermine our national security, we need adequate resources and a consistent long-term commitment to modernize the weapons complex."
"Given the many years of neglect, the weapons complex is in dire need of investment in both its intellectual and physical infrastructure."
"I've been a supporter of previous bipartisan efforts to reduce our nuclear weapons in step with the Russian Government."