Roger Wicker

OK, so it is your hope that the President's infrastructure plan... that $1 trillion infrastructure plan will be the third step in getting us where we need to be to meet our needs?

If we take your recommendation and restore--and restore over a 10 year period the full use of these revenues, will that get us where we need to be in terms of meeting our funding needs?

Well, I would like to thank everyone who has participated.

But whether that attack is made today or Valentine's Day next year, an artificial intelligence system might make that decision.

AI, according to your testimony, is only as good as the data the system receives.

Dr. Bethel, you are doing practical applications on high-risk law enforcement situations, autonomous cargo transfer, and animal-assisted therapy. Do you receive Federal research dollars for that? And to what extent?

Most of the panel, if not all the panel, seems to think we lead the world, it's just a question of whether we're going to continue leading the world.

Can you commit to me that the Navy will take advantage of the incremental funding authority in NDAA?

Congress has expressed strong support for the MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator Initiative.

The Navy's acquisition strategy for the Frigate is commendable.

The Senate Armed Services Seapower Subcommittee conducted a number of hearings on options to build the 355 ship Navy.

It is high time we got this bill fully implemented.

Will you work with me on legislation to move these unmanned system technologies forward?

I am working on an aquaculture bill that would expand and enhance marine aquaculture.

I think I'm asking, Mr. Chairman, about whether we have any plans to build beyond the three heavy icebreakers that you've talked about.

We need to build our first heavy first.

But we don't have plans to do so, do we?

We could build those three mediums in the United States, couldn't we?

I don't want to be put in that position. I don't think our Nation wants to find ourselves in that vulnerable situation.

I hope there is some way we can do the balancing act that Mr. Whitehouse talked about.

Reducing the speed limit to 30 miles an hour nationwide would save lives, no question about it, but we have taken the position, as a society, that would just be too harmful to the economy.

When we weigh the pluses and minuses of any of these things, we need to weigh the cost of the loss of jobs against the benefit.

Electricity can kill you. There is no question about it, but we take risks in our society.

Mr. Smith, in your written testimony, one of your suggestions is a public-private partnership to begin a dialogue on replacing Social Security numbers as methods of verification.

At the current rate, are we expanding service at any rate that's going to get us where we need to be 5 years from now, 10 years from now?