Martin Heinrich

We have made significant investments to protect our ally Israel from ballistic missile threats in the region.

I continue to be a champion of efforts to improve technology transfer from the NNSA labs as an engine for local economic development.

With new M&O contracts coming up soon for both Sandia and Los Alamos, what are your thoughts on incorporating technology transfer as an explicit mission of the labs?

I continue to hear concerns over the lack of progress of cleanup at Los Alamos.

How do you suggest NNSA and the labs address the difficulties small business have in engaging with the labs to commercialize innovative technologies?

The local community is also concerned that the budget request for fiscal year 2017 for LANL is inadequate.

I continue to have concerns about the upcoming transition in program management to a new contractor(s) and the potential impacts on the community and local small businesses.

I want to start by thanking our panelists for being here and for the continued excellent work that their respective agencies do every day in providing world-class strategic analysis and in keeping our country safe.

The small launch industry has the potential to play an important role in the future of military launches.

The Air Force has expressed its support for concepts such as 'disaggregation' and 'rapid reconstitution' that require new, more flexible, launch architectures.

So $30 million is what we are talking about going to Russia. Of course, some significant part of that is the physical cost of building it. We do not know how much profit Brother Putin is making on those.

Congress has been pretty clear and bipartisan in its desire to pursue a replacement engine and to do that quickly.

I remain supportive of efforts to end our Nation's reliance on the Russian-built RD-180 rocket engine.

I have real heartburn over the fact that, while we're dedicating enormous resources to the border in New Mexico, we are not even in the top half, and yet we have 179 miles of border.

Do you think that the National Guard is prioritizing its counterdrug resources effectively?

I think that focus will be incredibly important for getting the kind of talent that we need in what is becoming a very competitive environment with the private sector.

Everything the Secretary is doing, anything I can do to make that easier I will do.

I absolutely align with Secretary Carter that we are in a war on talent.

This Committee has expressed its concern in the NDAA that it takes an unreasonable amount of time to hire experienced individuals at the defense labs.

What kind of force presence do we have in place today in the Baltics, and do you believe it is enough to reassure our allies?

I was pleased to see this year's budget request quadruple the European Security Initiative to $3.4 billion.

I would certainly encourage him, rather than listening to the former Director of the CIA on Charlie Rose, to talk to our current Director of the CIA and also the folks at DOD who have been doing this targeting.

By potentially raising interest rates the Fed would endorse the idea that our economy is on a stable path towards full recovery.

Thank you, Chairman.

I have been very vocal about how misguided it is to ask small community institutions to finance our Nation's infrastructure.