Ben Nelson: “The President's fiscal year 2013 budget ensures that this will remain a leading national security priority.”

You stress the importance of resiliency and the ability to rapidly reconstitute critical satellite capacity if hostile action or a collision would occur.

Being able to bounce back from some sort of a lights-out situation is critically important.

I think we all agree on the necessity of implementing Dodd-Frank, and as you have said, in a sound and reasonable time frame and in a sound and reasonable way to deal with reckless speculation.

I just think there's a danger in going below this level and I think we need to be careful and thoughtful about it.