Joe Donnelly

What is your assessment of the cost estimation effort at the NNSA and why is it important?

I support that decision because of the integrated security challenge that we face with those threats.

The Department has proposed to terminate the MOX program and send the plutonium to WIPP.

That 6 to 7 percent deters a threat that is existential to our homeland, and our job in Congress is to ensure those dollars are well spent.

The Nuclear Posture Review proposes a sea launched cruise missile to replace the one dropped in the 2010 NPR.

I want to thank Chairman Crapo and my good friend from Kansas, whose statement is so similar to mine in many ways. In rural Indiana--you talked about relationship banking. That is, in many ways, the heartbeat of a community. Our small…

today, I wish to recognize and honor the extraordinary service and sacrifice of U.S. Army 1LT Clayton R. Cullen of Bicknell, IN. Dedication to his country, loyalty to his fellow servicemembers, and a deep love for his family and faith…

I want to thank you all of you for your implementation of the Sexton Act requirements regarding military suicide.

They are closing in. I think we are still ahead.

I appreciate all the work you've done on addressing military suicide.

I think the Congress, and you particularly, have been very helpful.

we do not want to buy the same real estate twice.

We can't be restricting our most rigorous mental health assessments to the deployment cycle.

This is not only an important issue to me but to national security.

I want to talk to you about what we talked about in my office, which is the opioid crisis.

I have great fears of seeing history repeat itself in some ways that we simply head out, and the second we do, ISIS comes back in.

In light of how critical all of those are and the budget challenges that we have as well, now more than ever we need to be sharing information, services, and parts across the Services to control cost and risk in this undertaking.

I am a strong supporter of modernizing all three legs of the nuclear triad.

It is my understanding that the platform transition that we are looking for requires a strategic basing action.

I think it is important to ensure we are investing in our national labs. I think they are extraordinarily critical.

I do want to quickly touch on the manned fighter mission in Fort Wayne.

the administration needs to have a clear vision and a comprehensive strategy.

I want to make sure that we have a plan in place to protect those people in those regions that we have stood with.

We lost 60,000 young people last year, 40,000 to opioids.

I could not agree more with you.