In the face of all of this, we're forcing our military, the backbone of our Nation's security, to endure a steep and damaging drop in capabilities and readiness.

However, setting it up so that they don't have control over their own assets comes back to haunt us, I feel, quite often.

My concern is that it's being budget-driven as opposed to risk-driven.

The reality is that our national security is worse off today than it was 10 years ago.

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January 2014 may go down on record as the coldest of the months in United States history. Between the freezing temperatures from last week's polar vortex storms, much of the Nation experienced record cold weather at least once or twice…

I will be watching real closely to see--do you have a date that we would have that report?

The NRC's workload did not increase the way that it was expected, but the Commission still increased its staff by almost 30 percent.

I think we have an excellent Commission. I mean, all five of you, I just appreciate your service so much, and it is well balanced.

It didn't include all the cultural----

I would like to ask, Captain Ostendorff, would you think it is important for us to have the benefit of a complete report, even more complete than the one we have right now?

Not only are the U.S. nuclear plant designs more robust than Japan's, but our significant cultural differences make it much less likely that we'll face the same problem.