So we could make it happen if we paid them to make it happen.

It is easily possible to show that SpaceX has received about $3.5 billion or so, possibly more, in open source funding.

So it is not as scary as FAR 15, the big monster, but this is a little monster.

it is great to hear this ringing affirmation for the importance of America's nuclear deterrence

we in Congress have gotten in the bad habit of not paying for things

your duties in this regard are the single-most important function of government, and the only thing the public will care about if there were to be a nuclear incident.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. I, too, welcome the witnesses, and it is a pleasure to work with you on these issues of vital importance to our national security.

I certainly second your strong objection to sequestration for the defense budget.

You need to plug that defense hole and you need to plug it with real dollars, not borrowed dollars from China.

The growing challenges associated with ballistic missile defense are increasingly capable and continue to outpace our active defense systems.

We have got to at least be at the President's level, because as General Dempsey said, that is the lower ragged edge of what we absolutely have to have.