Mike Turner

This is abhorrent, that any patient who would enter the VA would be placed at risk.

The fact that these practices were ongoing and none of us knew, you acknowledged, is equally abhorrent.

With respect to the hedge, of course, our continued concern is that with the Phased Adaptive Approach, the coverage of protection to the mainland United States is not to arrive until 2020.

We certainly don't want to see just unilateral reductions on the side of the United States without addressing what is that important issue of the threat of those tactical nuclear weapons.

I would like to commend Mr. Langevin on his leadership for the 111th Congress and congratulate Ms. Sanchez on selection as our new ranking member.

Does the Obama Administration have plans to review and revise the nation's nuclear strategy and/or guidance on the roles and missions of nuclear weapons, which was last revised nearly ten years ago by the Bush Administration?

I would hope that would occur within the context of reductions and concessions in tactical nuclear weapons from Russia.

I want to make certain I am not walking away with a misunderstanding on that.

I am very concerned that as we begin the deterrence review, or as we begin any review to look at further reductions, that it be done in the context of, as I was describing, the actual 'what is being deterred.'

What conditions do you believe would need to be met in order to permit further nuclear force reductions beyond New START levels or to permit reductions in U.S. hedge weapons?

The Administration has requested $564 million in military construction authority to support the recapitalization of the STRATCOM Headquarters at Offutt AFB.

This amendment is so 1980s. It's when Ronald Reagan proposed STAR Wars and the Democrats were opposed, and we're well past that. Missile defense now has total bipartisan support. President Clinton pursued it, President Obama pursued it and…

I think it's important for us to understand who might attack us. And this is not an issue of these troops being a relic.

In my district we had a woman, Maria Lauterbach, who was tragically murdered after making allegations of sexual assault.

I believe that this should not wait for the National Defense Authorization Act this year.

This House has passed this in legislation form five times, four as part of the National Defense Authorization Act and once as part of a stand-alone bill.

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I want to thank the Rules Committee for ruling my amendment in order and for providing this opportunity to assist low-income seniors and our Nation's veterans with obtaining safe and quality housing. This amendment is a narrowly tailored…

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It's, Mr. President, tell the American people how this leak is going to be stopped. Tell us how this cleanup is going to occur, and tell us how this is going to be avoided in the future. The public input is, Stop the leak.

We will have to see what comes out of the conference that the President has held. He was identifying the increase, that threat that we have for nuclear terrorism and nuclear proliferation issues. And certainly those are the correct issues…

I think it's also a false accomplishment. When the administration promotes this statement of a world without nuclear weapons, again, it's a human-value statement that I think everyone would wish to be true. But in translating it then to a…

It's a very good point. Because those nations that depend upon us, who have not developed nuclear weapons, who believe that they are part of our nuclear umbrella, that they believe that we extend, in cooperative understanding, our…

But usually I think and the American people think of the word ``assurance'' being something you give your friends and allies. And, in this instance, this is an assurance that the administration is giving to a nation that would be an…