Jon Kyl: “The people in my State are hurting, and this mine is an economic opportunity that should not be squandered.”

Our responsibility is to be straightforward with you all. You're the ones that appointed us, you're the ones that we answer to.

That's why we say that has to be decided now.

It makes our planning much more difficult.

The first thing we've got to do is have a conventional capability which is so dominant that no party would ever consider a nuclear attack against the United States.