Ben Nelson: “We've been alarmed, like the rest of the Country, at the rising rates of suicide by military servicemembers.”

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.

While the administration may be moving forward in anticipation of a new reduction, anything that it's doing is not intended to be unilateral.

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

Can you explain the importance of preserving your operating spectrum in general and how any movement from it should be paid for and coordinated from your perspective, the Navy's?