Bob Bennett: “Yes, yes; well, okay, if the program becomes an open-ended entitlement, as some have suggested, do you have any estimate…”

I do not dispute in any way, Mr. Chairman, the numbers that you have cited, but I do not want to leave the impression that all of the obstruction that has come as a result of the use of holds has come from the Minority side.

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.

This Administration performed something--that I thought was absolutely egregious and outrageous, and the only way I could demonstrate my concern about that was to put a hold on a nomination.

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