I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on July 15, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. subcommittee on crime and terrorism

The United States, between the government and private sector, has already invested nearly $300 million in risk reduction activities related to advanced oxygen rich staged combustion technology.

What are we doing to ensure that national defense agencies have some redundant capability for launching national security payloads into space?

As space technology advances, do you see a trend in the direction of smaller NSS payloads with increased capability replacing larger payloads?

That additional launch capacity, I think, has served the Nation well.

I just want to indicate that Wallops, the launch site in Virginia, is a well-kept secret.

What are the benefits of using small- and mid-sized launches and launch capabilities to launch smaller NSS missions like DMSP, rather than larger rockets?

A strong India is good for America, a strong America is, in like manner, good for India.

Disagreements occur and the test of the friendship is whether we can work through them.

The notion of this kind of joint activity is pretty significant.

The bureaucracies are not capable of managing the relationship.

If I could get everyone's attention, this meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on Near East, South, and Central Asian Affairs will come to order.

Counterterrorism cooperation, the Mumbai attack, the presence of LET and the continued concerns about what their designs might be.

One of the initial signs that I thought was very positive was in Prime Minister Modi's inauguration, his decision to invite Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif.

It has been really discouraging to me that so many nations in the world with which we have so much business on the table right now have had vacancies in their ambassadorial posts, largely due to process issues here in the Senate that we…

Yes. They are very capable of bogging it down.

I argue that the only way there is a real shot at getting to that goal is for India to open itself up and become a competitive marketplace for trade and investment in the international system.

I am a cosponsor of a resolution we are currently working in the Senate that talks about sort of the new relationship with the United States and India, but it also includes a resolution to invite the Prime Minister to address Congress.

Since 2010, the relationship has been on hold.

Well, I would like to thank the witnesses on panel one for your testimony and again for your service.

I think there is a lot of potential.

A rising India is in some ways going to be an ameliorating influence on China, in China's own growth and in China's own behavior in the region.

India is bound to become the world's most populous nation and the third-leading economy by 2030.

I think this particular vacancy gives the administration an opportunity to name someone that right away communicates a level of seriousness about the future of the relationship.

I rise to describe my concerns with the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling of the Hobby Lobby case and also to describe my support for the Murray-Udall legislation which I am cosponsoring and which we will act on later this week. First, just…