Ben Nelson: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”

These programs are central to our national security. They deserve full, bipartisan support.

double the number of ICBMs the current force is capable of defeating without adding a single new GBI

Let me add my thoughts. We ask you to reduce budgets, to watch the growth, and then when you come before us after you've done it, then we question why you've done it and whether you've done it right or not.

The greatest future enhancement for both Homeland and regional defense in the next 10 years is the development of the PTSS satellites, which will provide fire-control quality track data of raids of hostile ballistic missiles over their…