"the United States foots the overwhelming majority, perhaps as much as 75%, of the defense spending in NATO."
"Why aren't we making any progress in improving the governance and management structure for the labs?"
"We must ensure that our nuclear security enterprise is effective and efficient."
"This hearing will examine longstanding, well-documented, and fundamental concerns with the way NNSA manages its labs and plants."
"This hearing is not like most of the hearings that are taking place however, in that it is not looking directly at a particular agency's fiscal year 2013 budget request."
"In today's fiscal environment, we cannot afford such inefficiency and waste, particularly when we are seeing major cuts to the pledged nuclear modernization funding in this year's budget request."
"The implementation of the NNSA Act failed to achieve the intended autonomy for NNSA within the Department of Energy."
"The Governance structure of the NNSA is not delivering the needed results. This governance structure should be changed."
"I can't imagine what the rules and regulations would look like if Government had to tell them how they should have done their experiments."
"I believe the problem can be fixed."
"This hearing will examine long-standing, well-documented, and fundamental concerns with the way NNSA manages its labs and plants."