Joe Courtney actually said...

There is just no margin for delay in terms of making sure that we are going to be able to implement New START.

The money has to come from somewhere, and we are going to have to make difficult tradeoffs, particularly in the decade between 2020 and 2030...

And we have to--we are going to need a safe, secure, and reliable deterrent as far into the future as I can see.

I think when historians write the book on this administration, one of the overlooked achievements was the New START treaty.