Long term, the Navy needs a minimum of 12 SSBNs to provide a survivable force and meet Commander, STRATCOM, requirements.

U.S. strategic deterrence promotes global stability.

Secretary McHugh, will you make these metrics available to our military communities so that they can understand your decisions?

Imagine you are the assaulted victim who has just gone through a trial and because a commanding officer has said let us overturn the jury's verdict, you then have to salute the person who assaulted you.

What is the Air Force doing to recruit the best and brightest cyber talent?

For more than 50 years, the Navy's ballistic missile submarine force has provided the most survivable leg of the Nation's strategic nuclear deterrent triad.

I am drafting legislation that will remove the initial disposition authority from commanding officers and put it in the hands of experienced military prosecutors.

I want to make sure the 10th Mountain Division is still seen as a vital division for the Army.

If the man in charge for the Air Force in preventing sexual assault is being alleged to have committed a sexual assault this weekend, obviously there is a failing in training and understanding.

I am highly concerned that so few victims feel that they could ever receive justice that they will not report.

Do you believe this lack of resources will hurt unit morale?

General Welsh, is the Air Force considering an incentive pay system that helps in the retention of military members with high-level cyber skill sets?

This new provision ensures servicemembers who exceed the 5-year statute of limitations receive the same protections under the law.

We are not taking away the commander's authority over almost everything else.

If one in five women say they are serving in the military and they are receiving unwanted sexual contact, that is a huge problem regardless of what you are looking at in the public sector.

leveraging citizen soldiers who work in the cyber industry every day and also serve their country in uniform through the National Guard and Reserve is imperative.

My concern is that we have a lot of assets now moved to the region in response to the threats in order to be prudent, but part of our military exercises in the region may well exacerbate the type of response that we have gotten from North…

A survivable deterrent retains the ability to conduct an assured retaliatory response even after being attacked.

I think this hearing is such an important component to that, because not only are you going to hear from the Federal representatives, but you are going to hear from some local leaders to begin to create a record of what has to be done…

Your expertise with what took place with Hurricane Katrina could not be matched by anyone in the Senate.

Having lived through Hurricane Katrina, she didn’t wait a minute to extend her hand to help our region in any way we could.

When Superstorm Sandy hit just over 4 months ago, our State suffered unimaginable losses.

The stories that I hear most from residents is the runaround, it is the constant runaround from their insurance agent.

How do you streamline these operations? How do you make them more efficient?

I can't tell you how much the families, small businesses, communities, and leaders appreciate you holding this hearing in New York.