"Both the President and NNSA and DOD have identified it with respect to the modernization plan as being necessary and essential, not merely desirable."
"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,..."
"Please provide a final estimate cost figure for the CMRR-NF facility, based upon where the design is at right now."
"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?"
"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 ..."
"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?"
"How much will this alternate plan cost in relation to what CMRR was expected to cost?"
"The stimulus I voted and many people in this room voted against, is because the American people actually believe that when taxpayers' dollars are being spent that debt is being created."
"This is an administration that believes that when government spending is occurring, when taxpayers' dollars are being spent, that jobs are being created."
"I think that Dr. Yamashita's letter to us, one, exhibits some of the frustration that is ongoing in this process by all people involved."
"Will the U.S. take steps to intercept it, as Japan has indicated it may do? Or will the Administration lead from behind and merely watch it fly by?"