mr. nordquist. mr.secretary, you and the general has spent most of your life in the service of the country and want to thank you for continuing to do so. i notice when you come to capitol hill you are invited to speak to the democratic caucus as well as to the republican caucus, so we have a lot of confidence in you as a source of stability and good advice for us. and i think that is one major reason why the funding levels for this year and for next year are so much high. i want to talk to you about the nuclear posture review. the department of defense is the lead author for that. i voted for the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty in 2010 with russia which, in general, reduced the number of nuclear weapons in the world. i thought we had enough. if we make sure that the wines we continue to have work, and on chairman of the subcommittee, energy and water, along with senator feinstein, that provides the money for modernization of our nuclear weapons. over that time we've kept our commitments to do that. i noticed that