John McCain

The Flores Agreement does not authorize you to cut corners, period.

This is the definition of 'non-cooperative.'

It is well known that the majority of children who come here are brought by coyotes, and it is well known that the coyotes are part of the drug cartels.

If those are facts--and they are--then why don't we do more in the country of origin--Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras--where we can have these young people come to our consulates or our embassies and there apply for this asylum.

More importantly than that, young women who are brought by coyotes are invariably sexually abused on the way.

Despite our work, you continue to think that somehow your legal responsibilities do not continue after you place a child.

These are coyotes. They are part of the drug cartels. The overwhelming majority of children, their parents have paid thousands of dollars to have them transported, and many of the young women are sexually abused on the way.

Well, I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing on this very important issue, and especially the abuses that are inflicted on these young children once they get here.

Issuing a stream of nuclear saber rattling policy statements and specific threats, including many by Putin himself, the likes of which have not been heard since the days of Nikita Khrushchev.

In sharp contrast to our programs, which are with the exception of updating the antiquated B-61 bomb all in the planning phase, the Russians are deploying their new systems on land and at sea.

Rather than reducing reliance on nuclear weapons, Russia, China, and North Korea have all significantly increased the role those weapons play in their respective national security strategies.

I am deeply concerned on all counts, and that I believe we have declined in all three areas since the beginning of this century.

I believe such a review should be conducted promptly and quietly in a highly classified manner within a select group of policymakers and senior military officials in the Pentagon.

I do believe a major review of our nuclear posture is required to better align us to deter foreign leaders whose polices, pronouncements, and investments in nuclear forces suggest they might actually believe in military use of such weapons…

We need to make clear to Mr. Putin that, despite what he says in his exercises, that any use of a nuclear weapon--any use--could lead to unpredictable outcomes which could result in the destruction of his country as well as the rest of the…

I would like to point out to my colleague that both Blue Origin and SpaceX are developing and have had partial success with a reusable rocket engine.

It is not rocket engine. It is rocket engines that we are buying from the Russians.

So to somehow portray it as just between those two is, of course, totally inaccurate.

We are not comfortable with being left with the risk of only being dependent upon SpaceX.

We will not use Deltas as a preferred system because it is much more expensive than Atlas.

We are concerned that going forward they will not be very competitive.

This is really, really, really remarkable, and we intend, frankly, to, in a totally bipartisan basis, try to fix this problem.

We are giving them millions of dollars of American tax dollars.

You were never made aware of all this information before I brought it to your attention, even though it was public knowledge as far back as 2014?

Does that disturb you, Madam Secretary?