Deborah Lee James: “If you are reduced to one single way, that is the equivalent of putting all your eggs in one basket.”

The loss of assured access to space would be extremely damaging to national security.

That is why I am so grateful to really you on this committee, among others, for coming together this year and putting together a bipartisan budget agreement.

We believe we need more. And that is why we are urging the approval of these higher levels.

If we return to sequestration in fiscal year 2018, this will exacerbate the readiness problem and set us even farther back.