Jim Cooper: “I am certain that boaters upstream will accept a minor inconvenience if that is the price they pay for saving Nashville…”

Thank you, Chairman Cooper and Ranking Member Lamborn and the members of this committee, for your support of our mission to conduct operations in, from, and to space.

The Soviet Union is gone, but Mr. Putin believes that he has some divine authority to try to reinstate it.

If I were the average person sitting back home watching this hearing, I think I would doubt that any of our Nation state adversaries were shaking in their boots.

Vladimir Putin's recent announcement that he was placing his nuclear forces on alert made clear to the world the risks of miscalculation.