Jon Kyl: “I believe that the United States has leverage with Russia.”

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 makes our planning much more difficult.

We have to make decisions now to make sure that we have the capacity to build whatever we're going to need to build.

One of the things that we noticed in this endeavor is there is a great attitude among the military, among the Defense Department generally in being able to succeed at a mission.