"I want to congratulate you and the other Delphi salaried retirees because you have... managed it to give us the issues and the information."
"The Obama Administration is currently conducting a 90-day 'NPR Implementation Study,' which will likely result in changes to U.S. nuclear weapon employment guidance."
"This hearing is very timely because we are currently faced with a highly uncertain future regarding our own nuclear deterrent modernization program."
"But I am thankful that all of my majority colleagues on this subcommittee are standing firm for the need for modernization."
"Your opening statement mentions open source evidence that Russia may be in violation of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty."
"I couldn't agree more. That is why one of the New START Implementation Act provisions contained in the House-passed fiscal year 2012 NDAA would ensure that we don't unilaterally reduce."
"I want to thank each of our witnesses today. As you know, this is part of our overall effort to get a grasp of not only the countries that we are looking at for our deterrence, but also looking at the..."
"If these reports are true, Putin's Russia has returned to the worst arms control behavior of the Soviet Union."
"The open-source information available on Chinese nuclear forces, strategy, and production is extremely limited."
"China says that it maintains a minimum deterrence posture designed to deter nuclear attacks on its homeland."
"This was a study done by James Sherk at the Heritage Foundation, looking at hiring patterns..."