U.S. State Attorneys General

The U.S. maritime industry is essential to ensuring long-term stability and security for our country.

If you're a strict constructionist and you believe the words of the Constitution should be read literally, and if Article I of the Constitution says the power of the purse, the ability to appropriate money belongs to Congress, not to the…

I don't think I understand what Senator Graham is talking about. The kids in Kentucky who aren't getting as good an education as they might otherwise are going to suffer for a long time because Donald Trump's going to spend years and tens…

The president is trying to usurp Congress' authority. The president doesn't have the power of the purse. The president can't decide to shuffle money around once Congress has allocated.

Simply because Donald Trump fabricated a crisis and called it a national emergency doesn't mean that he can violate the separation of powers under the Constitution.

Do you believe that reducing foreign aid by this amount supports our strategy of using all instruments available to the United States?

The person who could end this -- do you think she would go on a trip if Mitch McConnell said I am going to bring the Senate -- the bills that we already passed in the Senate and passed by the House, he will bring these bills to the floor.

Mitch McConnell is basically a person who will -- who's very facile, I should say, in getting what he wants.

Why can't he use it to help 800,000 people who are working women, many of them, without paychecks?

It's clear he can't justify this wall. That's why he has to take people hostage in order to get his way.

Mitch McConnell should start acting like the Senate is a separate branch of government, that Congress is a separate branch of government, and he should just bring those Senate past bills to the floor for a vote so that we can end this…

He is one of the people who can end this shutdown right now, but I don't expect him to because he has taken 800,000 people hostages.

It's never a surprise when Donald Trump does something very childish. But let's not forget who began this train wreck of an unnecessary and harmful shutdown. It's Donald Trump when he changed his mind about supporting a bill that was…

I don't think the president should be giving a state of the state, State of the Union speech so that he can for 45 minutes carry on about all the great things he has done at a time when the government shut down.

The ripple effect of all of this harm from this train wreck was started by Donald Trump who said oh, yes, I'll take responsibility for it, but of course not.

And to say that is an emergency and then within 24 hours of having said it, go off to Florida to your Mar-a-Lago resort, when you think there is a national emergency. I think all the evidence, including what Donald Trump says and does…

Admiral Moran, how well is the current surface ship maintenance strategy performing in terms of providing sufficient throughput and timely delivery of ships back to the Fleet in terms of meeting the requirements of the Optimized Fleet…

I think that was an important change, and I hope that Admiral Moran agrees with that, because we cannot continue to have all these waivers for the readiness of these ships before they deploy.

I think when I met with you, I was very interested in making sure that when we purchase the ships, et cetera, aircraft, that corrosion is one of the factors that we would consider in putting out the contract to begin with.

There is a concern about something called innovative accounting techniques to indicate to us that these 80 percent goals are being met.

Meanwhile, the modernization plans are proceeding. They are being implemented per our Secretary.

I am glad to hear that Pearl Harbor is one of your first shipyard focuses.

I consider this to be a major improvement after years of neglect of this important infrastructure.

I think that we do need to pay a lot more attention to these other aspects that are not specifically DOD.