today I wish to recognize the American Studio Glass Movement. The movement is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The American Studio Glass Movement began in Toledo, OH, as a small group of passionate artists and has grown into an…

I say to my colleague from Nebraska, I am afraid the answer is yes. It is increasing costs and, therefore, making us less competitive. When we increase the costs of doing business, of course, it impacts the economy. The Senator has laid…

Thank you, Madam Chairman, I welcome our distinguished witnesses here today, whose testimony today will help us to come up with a better NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013.

With respect to cyber offense, modern warfare will demand, as you said Senator Portman, the effective use of both cyber and kinetic means.

It would be absolutely devastating. We have no plans right now for that.

I think we balanced that in the budget submittal that's on the Hill.

That's well put. As you said, we don't have that capability now because both for the requirement you talked about, which is the U.S. origin unobligated uranium, and also to be able to encourage more countries not to go down the road of…

We have to have both, and as we're downsizing our military are we becoming too reliant on cyber defense.

I would hope that you all would speak up about that and work with us to try to ensure that we are not making decisions that short-term seem to be necessary for budget savings but longer-term are going to create the very problems you talked…

I think you would all agree that without the scientists and engineers being world-class, we cannot have a world-class program.

The threats we face as a nation, unfortunately, are not diminishing based on our fiscal problems.

I think President Calderon has been courageous, and I think he is doing the rights things.