Jon Kyl: “My work in support of the Leahy bill on patent reform, which is just another example.”

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.

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

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

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.