Our new defense strategy calls for exactly that.

The continuation of the program is essential to national security and there are no alternatives to the program which will provide acceptable capability to meet the joint military requirement at less cost.

The New Entrant Certification Strategy has been signed by the Air Force, the NRO and NASA, and was released in October 2011.

It costs money. It costs lives in a war if you are, for example, trucking fuel around.

Yes, it's important that Pakistan address the Haqqani Network's use of their soil.

I would also like to thank Senator Lieberman for the kindness and honor of his introduction, for all he has done for this country.

There will be a robust civilian mission--as Iraq becomes a normal country.

I am confident that we're on the path toward this transition.

It is, absolutely, and it actually began in this committee before I took office.

Yes, it's in the security interest of the Afghans that their government end corruption.

I support President Obama's decision to begin the deliberate, responsible drawdown of 10,000 U.S. surge forces from Afghanistan over the course of this year, with a further drawdown of the remaining 23,000 surge forces by the end of summer…

The Department established a policy in 2008 that restricts use of cluster munitions after 2018 to those that have a submunition failure rate of not more than 1 percent.