Jon Kyl: “The majority leader pulled it down in order to reach an agreement with the Republican side on a much slimmed down…”

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.

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.

It's enough that it's opportunistic. In other words, we're in a conflict with one, and the other sees that this is an opportunity.

The threat briefings that we received leave no question that both China and Russia, but particularly China see space as a war fighting domain.