I have just been told that that is being zeroed out in the fiscal year 2004 budget, which is hard for me to even imagine.

DOD should expand the authority of the National Guard Bureau within the Department of Defense to that of a separate entity.

Well, bless you. Mr. Chairman, I would just conclude by saying two names, Scott Speicher, let's not forget him.

Thank you for trying to get your arms around this problem and steering us in a direction that best protects our country.

Secretary Rumsfeld, Congress appropriated millions of dollars for JSIMS and its related Service programs in fiscal year 2003, how does DOD/JFCOM propose to use that funding now that they are all (with one exception) zeroed in the fiscal…

Secretary Rumsfeld, the chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Council has established a panel to examine 'the risks associated with not testing our nuclear weapons.'

General Kadish, should we proceed with deployment of the GMD system if we have not yet completed a successful test that includes aiming the interceptor with in-flight target updates?

The Missile Defense Agency is an R&D agency that has no operational control over the system it develops.

Let me ask a policy question to the secretary over there. That would be the first time that we would be weaponizing space.

That is why you need my vote.

Why, then, is there no current capability against a real threat?

Secretary Crouch, when does the U.S. plan to upgrade the radars in the U.K. and Greenland for missile defense, and how much funding will be required to protect the upgraded radars and the local inhabitants from potential terrorist strikes…