Jon Kyl: “The passport is supposed to be the gold standard for documents in the United States, and yet this GAO report verifies…”

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

It makes our planning much more difficult.

Mr. Chairman, Representative Jacobs, the fact is that our current system has deteriorated and aged to the point that we wouldn't be confident in the deterrent value of it on out into the future.

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.