Joe Courtney actually said...

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to all the witnesses."

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and again congratulations on your selection as chairman of this committee, which again is a great committee."

"I think we have a great team on both sides of the aisle, and obviously this could be a real sort of historic year given the topic that we are going to discuss this afternoon."

"It is a bilateral, verifiable agreement that gives us some degree of predictability on what our potential adversaries look like."