Jack Reed

Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse have provided tremendous investment of time and support to ensure that Rhode Island is ready to implement the Affordable Care Act.

This sequestration could end up costing us more money than saving it.

It is disturbing to learn that about 100,000 formerly homeless people may be removed from current housing or emergency shelters if the sequestration goes through.

For us to cut funding and to lose what would probably be 10,000 veterans from our housing and be back on the streets would be tragic.

One of the Dodd-Frank initiatives was to take bilateral derivative trades and make them--put them on clearing platforms so that they are multilateral.

We desperately need more resources.

Uniformity, simple uniformity helps sometimes.

If we are able to avoid sequestration, there are still significant issues with the BCA going forward.

We would have to go back and redo our national defense strategy if we had those cuts.

There seems to be a significant gap between the first attack and the annex at midnight and the deployment of mortars and RPGs.

There are many different ways you have deal with the issue, and it goes to some of the questions I raised with Dr. Rooney.

One of the issues that Senator McCain brought up and I think very correctly as the ranking member of the Seapower Subcommittee is the Ford carrier program.

I believe Admiral Greenert is certainly on the record as saying that there is definite concern of readiness among the Navy at this point.

Do you agree that DOD should provide our servicemembers with the greatest level of protection under the MLA by closing these loopholes?

They did make the commitment to a denuclearized peninsula.

I think China is key to the influence here on North Korea.

We are in the midst of a doctrinal shift similar to the late 1970s and early 1980s.

There has to be, I think, a national commitment to modernization of the whole triad.

It is very important that we replace it in addition to the calculus you just mentioned.

We are committed, I believe, to maintain the triad of air-launched missiles as well as ground-launched missiles.

It clearly exposes North Korea's willing defiance of the international community and United Nations (U.N.) Security Council's resolution.

The relationship with notably the President of Afghanistan is 'scratchy' I think is probably as good a word as I could describe it.

The most important thing--and Senator Gillibrand touched on this--is the command climate that we hold commanders responsible for establishing.

We have to, as you both clearly indicated, not rhetorically but fundamentally respond to this.

It would also reassure our NATO allies that we remain committed.