Bob Bennett: “Where I come from there is an old adage. It's better to be ahead of the ditch than ahead of the church.”

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

I hope that you will energetically continue to find solutions to all of the agencies challenges as you work to promote the security of our nation.

If you kill the industrial base of solid rocket motors now with this action, in 2015 you cannot get it back.

I would urge you to have conversations with whatever 'elves' within the administration you deal with, over at OMB, because I think that's where the decision was made.