Mike Turner

Ultimately, Congressman Guinta's leadership on this has been appreciated because, in fact, as a former mayor, he brought to the Congress an understanding of many of these issues.

All of the names of the companies that have been mentioned in this debate are not in this bill. This bill even requires competition. It's somewhat irrelevant to have the discussion on specific companies. I yield the balance of my time to…

The letter that the gentleman from New Mexico just placed in the Record concerned fiscal year 2012. This bill is about fiscal 2013. And so it's irrelevant. It's fine to have in the Record so people can confirm that. I yield 1 minute to the…

Would you read the letter. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Washington controls the time.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $5,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR. The…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 15, line 7, insert ``deny access to or'' before ``degrade''. Page 15, line 20, insert ``deny access to…

If we have a continuing resolution for the beginning of FY 2013, will NNSA recommend to the President that he seek an 'anomaly' for NNSA--or any individual NNSA programs?

How much will this alternate plan cost in relation to what CMRR was expected to cost?

Please provide a final estimate cost figure for the CMRR-NF facility, based upon where the design is at right now.

Do you still anticipate building CMRR-NF, with work commencing in 5 years? How much more expensive will CMFF-NF be then vs. if we built it now?

What is the cost of the alternative plutonium strategy, including modifications to PF-4 and RLUOB, shipping material to DAF and Superblock, cleaning out the PF-4 vault, conducting the pit reuse study, etc.?

I do have an opportunity to make my voice heard in both the Pentagon and the White House in this particular area, and I do, and I am listened to, and I think the sustained commitment over time to the people is what is the most important…

Both the President and NNSA and DOD have identified it with respect to the modernization plan as being necessary and essential, not merely desirable.

The issue of the timing of modernization to the adoption of New START Treaty was expressly stated by the Senate in Condition Nine and was expressly concurred with by the President.

So is your answer basically then, and I am sorry, obviously these are very complex issues to compare, is it a workforce capacity issue?

I mean, it obviously, if that--if you are going to have to be fixing it, I would assume that it is an error.

What our focus is on, which is why there is congressional oversight, are the things that aren't happening, why they aren't happening, and when they are going to happen.

Almost every time we see that you stress to this subcommittee how important the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement, CMRR, Facility is and how the capabilities it will provide are critical to sustaining a stockpile.

Now, Administrator D'Agostino, you have the benefit of having appeared before this subcommittee seven times starting in 2006 when you were Deputy NNSA Administrator.

Throughout all of my questions and my opening statement and I think concerns that you have heard from members of the panel has been the issue of the abandonment by the Administration in this budgetary request of the commitment to the…

I must ask, being a gentleman of Ohio, if you would please not refer to an Ohio replacement. It is the Ohio class sub replacement, and it would make me feel more comfortable as we go through this.

The Budget Control Act does not dictate any reductions that we are dealing with in this subcommittee with respect to NNSA or nuclear modernization.

This committee, subcommittee, has historically on a bipartisan basis unanimously supported the necessity, not just the desirability, but the necessity of CMRR, the UPF, and the life extension programs.

Good afternoon. We will call to order the hearing for the Strategic Forces Subcommittee.

We need to ensure our nuclear forces are modernized and effective.