There's no such thing as a silver bullet, maybe silver buckshot.

this country lacks a coherent strategy of deterrence in the cyber realm.

I agree with the senior Senator from Maine on the intent of this provision and support working with her and our colleagues to move this date to January 1, 2018. I would also offer that to prioritize some actions does not mean to do so at…

on January 9 of this year, the President of the United States said: We are going to come up with DACA. We are going to do DACA, and then we can start immediately on phase two, which will be comprehensive. I think we have to do DACA first…

My concern is that the whole strategy of deterrence breaks down if you are talking about terrorists having nuclear weapons or a nuclear device.

We're 8 months late now.

I would hate to low ball this and end up with a lack of capacity again in a crisis.

I would think in your position it would be helpful to us who have to justify this budget to our constituents to break that down a bit to say, okay, what is it that is current operations and what is it that is paying past due bills in…

I think it is very important that the public understand that we are talking about the lowest percentage of GDP for the defense budget in something like 70 years, 3.1 percent.

F-35 operations and sustainment costs are a major concern

We have to think about it that way, and begin to come together to protect the values and our way of life.

In the--since we've been talking for the last hour, four people in America have died from drug overdoses, and we're under attack.

That certainly would not contribute to--if the Iranians had a nuclear weapon, we would have two rogue states with nuclear weapons on our hands instead of one.

We have to make an important decision here within the next hour, which is the confirmation of Mike Pompeo to be Secretary of State.

It will help us to be able to provide you with the funding that you need if we can tell our constituents they are being audited.

Hopefully we have just passed a 2-year budget authorization. Hopefully again we will have the final numbers within the next two or three weeks, and then we will be able to move forward.

I believe that China seeks regional hegemony.

The problem is right now they may have a benign intent or a lack of malicious intent. I would put it that way. But they are building up the capability which requires that we have to be alert.

But if we are dealing with a peer competitor who has submarines and underwater drones and aircraft, that is a whole different calculation.

I am not attacking you. I am attacking the failure of our structure to adequately get at a problem when we have it right in front of us.

So you are committing to me a serious and unrelenting commitment to nonproliferation.

Would it be advantageous to our country for us to ratify the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea?

I consider your command one of the most important, if not the most important, in all of the commands that we have.

I believe he would do a victory dance.

It seems to me that really underlines the importance of the MSP program.