Ben Nelson: “While the administration may be moving forward in anticipation of a new reduction, anything that it's doing is not…”

I firmly agree with the importance of oversight because we are in a government-owned/contractor-operated situation, there are substantial liabilities.

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.

Do you believe this forward-deployed radar in Turkey is a significant contribution to our Homeland defense capability?

We cannot just be catching up or trying to stay at par with the rest of the world or otherwise our defenses are down.