"the inability or the lack of sharing of information between the various elements of the safety net."
"A final point is that the layer--the security through layered operations, beginning way off in Kazakhstan all the way back home, becomes really important."
"These kinds of hearings are very, very important, and particularly important that we do the combined hearing that the two chairmen have put together here."
"It seems to me to be a waste of a valuable asset..."
"I do want to thank the Corps for bringing along the West Sacramento project..."
"It seems to me that the solution lies in eliminating the question of whether something is viable or not, and simply say if we are going to install this system, it is going to require that all the crea..."
"It is obviously vital for the Coast Guard regulations to be targeted, fair, and reasonable, and to get them done on time, all of which seems to be a very difficult task for the Coast Guard to achieve."
"So why don't we just dredge this thing out and say dead?"
"Well, if the Representative is correct--and apparently, she is, since she lives there and buys fuel on the Virgin Islands--that it is not the Jones Act issue that raises the cost, but other matters."
"Missile defense can be done in a couple of different ways. The one I want to really focus on is directed energy."
"How much money have you asked for?"