Angus King

I want to have the toughest environmental standards in the Nation and the most timely, predictable, and user-friendly process.

32 percent of the manufacturing jobs in the United States have been lost--32 percent, 42,000 factories have closed.

Principle Number 1 is we live in a competitive world.

I would like to cosponsor that bill.

We are having to let go loan officers to hire compliance officers.

I think this is a very important Subcommittee, and you are doing extremely important work.

But the serial permitting is as bad as serial killing. It is a form of serial killing, I guess.

I'd like to engage you to do a similar study of the entire U.S. Government.

I just hope you'll convey that those of us here understand and appreciate that.

Your people are an essential part of that.

It's a miracle because of the credibility of the deterrent.

I hope you will take the message back to your people that they have one of the most important missions in this country.

The biggest risk to cost growth is a delay in appropriations that causes the schedule to slip.

If they follow historical trends, efforts related to sustaining and modernizing the weapons stockpile are likely to be particularly susceptible to cost growth.

Admiral, I can't resist. The studies you're doing for the east coast site remind me of when God came to Moses...

One of our advantages is naval power. I'm worried about anti-ship missiles.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We need returnables. We need a returnable law.

Might this not be an area rife for international cooperation? It is in everyone's interest who is in space to deal with this problem, and maybe we could have a joint venture on this cleanup problem?

How serious is that and is there any way to deal with it?

I would appreciate your keeping the subcommittee updated on the progress of competition in this area of launch just so we can be aware of what is available when and what the timetable is.

Given the importance and given that vulnerability, does it not make strategic sense to spread these capabilities over smaller satellites, different satellites, commercial satellites so that we do not have a Pearl Harbor of space where a…

I do not want our current deterrent to be Maginot Line of the 21st century that does not deal with existing threats.

I think that is the key, that intelligence is our first line of defense in this new world.

Everybody around here hates sequestration, but it has a way of rearing its ugly head continuously.