But we don't have a designated facility, because we're essentially not taking anyone else in GTMO, as far as I understand it, pursuant to the administration's policy?

the Virginia-class submarine provides a critical platform for our special operators, especially in anti-access and area-denial environments?

I hope that we act immediately on this on a bipartisan basis.

If you know someone is killing someone and committing murder... and you knowingly provide them with arms, you are not just standing silent; you are actually an accomplice to those killings.

we must be better prepared to respond to threats that give us little to no advance warning

I think that so many of our pilots in the Guard and Reserve have flown in the active duty also before they've served.

the United States must shape its [nuclear] deterrent forces to maintain the attributes which lead to stability among major powers

It is critical, is it not, to modernization?

I was proud to join my colleagues... in writing a letter to Secretary Panetta to express our outrage regarding the Russian arms sales.

I'm deeply troubled, Admiral, when you tell me that if we allow, this Congress, sequestration to go forward that our fleet could be in a position where it would go from 285 capacity to 235.

would it be accurate to describe the Persian Gulf and the seas adjacent to Iran as an increasingly anti-access and area-denial environment?

Unfortunately, this is part of the pattern for Russia.