"If you are confirmed to be the Under Secretary for Policy, will you ensure that the Missile Defense Agency and the ballistic missile defense programs of the Department are subject to thorough policy oversight?"
"I would ask you, as the new Secretary of the Navy, if you would go and speak to your superiors..."
"Neither the Navy nor the Nation nor its citizens can wait for a catastrophic event to occur before recognizing the potential impacts of such an event."
"What weight would you share with the committee that you would give to the professional military judgments of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the CNO, Admirals Mullen and Roughead?"
"I would ask, in addition, I already requested that the chart be entered as well as the two photographs in the record..."
"I wrote to Secretary of Defense Gates, requesting that he launch an investigation by the Defense Department's Inspector General."
"I think in this era of freshness and transparency that the new administration would want to come forth with detail instead of this mumbo-jumbo that is going on."
"I hope you will take--and I can tell you I speak for a number of Senators, because we have discussed this."
"We face the prospect of very significant deficits."
"this is part of the new breath of fresh air that I am talking about and the transparency that is needed."
"do not make it a political document; make it a budget document on how we are going to have sanity and common sense in the budgetary and appropriations process and entitlement process of the U.S. Gover..."