Bob Bennett: “It seems to me penny wise and pound foolish if we say, okay, we are halfway there and now we are going to cut the…”

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.

So I think the rule change that said it is a constitutional supermajority of all the Senators duly sworn is a step in the level of accountability for one's position with respect to a piece of legislation.

the MDA's mission to 'deploy . . . an effective National Missile Defense system capable of defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack' is more important now than ever.