I think the public wants to see the best that we can possibly do is the best that can be done by human beings.

We are here to do the best possible job for the taxpayer and when it involves nuclear, that usually means zero defects.

It seems like this decision is really not being presented to Congress as a decision, but more as a fait accompli.

I would find it more useful for the subcommittee for all the members to try to make a decision on that instead of being forced into a decision.

I have rarely heard of a competitive bid situation in which one bidder is twice as expensive as the other bidder, and yet there is such enthusiasm for bidding--awarding the bid to the by far, the highest bidder.

Mr. Hamilton, in your testimony you noted that the four waste drums at the Idaho Advanced Retrieval Project which exploded were a 'near miss,' and that there was 'some degree of luck that nobody was there to get hurt.'

As I was saying, this is 2019, we should be able to get this right.

So I would find it more useful for the subcommittee for all the members to try to make a decision on that instead of being forced into a decision.

The MOX facility cancellation and subsequent repurposing for plutonium pit production has been done without a competitive bid process.

I believe our military has the capability to walk and chew gum at the same time. I think we can handle multiple priorities simultaneously and do them right and do them well.

Sir, can I add just in a few seconds, of all of the work we have ahead of us, the most important work we do right now is stand up the new combatant commander, because that normalizes the business of warfighting going forward.