The Armed Services Committee has banned the Pentagon from even thinking about another BRAC round.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would also like to welcome the witnesses, and in particular, wish General Robinson the best of luck.

How do we tell our friends in New York or Boston or Norfolk, Newport News, or South Florida, they get less protection than we do here?

I think it is pretty clear in your paragraph at the bottom of page 2, the top of page 3, that the National Capital Region comes first, at least as far as aircraft or cruise missile threats are concerned.

several years ago, I referred to the MOX [mixed oxide] program in South Carolina as a zombie earmark.

I would hope that you and the Department of Energy would have a proposed termination date for that program in the relatively near future.

It is vitally important that we get it right because, literally, the survival of our Nation, and of the planet, is at stake if we get it wrong.

Nuclear deterrence is our number one priority defense mission.

I welcome the stronger Air Force budget.

Whatever we do with regard to these folks, we have to be--it has to be real, and it has to be effective.

The Fair Chance Act is a bipartisan legislation that I introduced with Representative Darrell Issa to address these challenges in the Federal Government.

The problem is that Congress continues to pass bills that waste money over there, and we cannot even get a debate.