I will beg of you as we go through this hearing, I see this is a technical hearing, help us raise our level of technical understanding of this technology.

Unfortunately, too many of my colleagues choose to ignore the scientific consensus that human beings are playing a significant role in the warming of our planet.

Similarly, future generations will be the ones who will suffer if we don't take immediate and meaningful steps to confront climate change.

what are we doing to get the Human Rights Council--how are we using our membership to get the Human Rights Council to stop it almost exclusively focusing on their obsession with Israel.

how do we encourage more cost sharing from... wealthier countries that actually have the ability to step up?

But if you can more specifically discuss how we can balance the United States' role and not feed into Maduro's obvious attempt to distract from his own deliberate oppression and blame his problems on the United States.

You probably know that Congressman Diaz-Balart and I were the sponsors of the 1,000-days resolution.

the notion that Israel is a standing agenda item on the Human Rights Council, and DPRK, which has some of the worst atrocities on planet Earth, Syria, where you have a government using chemical weapons, barrel bombs, and Scuds against his…

Veterans have sacrificed so much already and deserve world-class health care.

We are grateful for your service and grateful for what you do.

Well, because of what you have done on this, I wanted the record to reflect accurately what you said in both cases.

Well, you are doing it the right way because I did it the wrong way in the State of Georgia and I paid a terrible price for it.

I believe you have stated before the hearing in Atlanta, as well as personally to me on a number of occasions, that there were mismanagement issues that contributed to the suicides in Atlanta.

Are there contractual limits or union limits, or what kind of limits do you have, to reprimand or correct or otherwise dismiss an employee for inappropriate activity, mismanagement, or contributing to the failure of the system to deliver…

We are seeing all of these different efforts producing good value for our veterans in terms of timeliness and accuracy.

Sixty-thousand of their members, culinary workers in Las Vegas whose take-home pay has gone down because of the effects and the cost of the coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

I know what I like to look for in a judge, and that is, somebody that is going to call it like they see it; they are going to call it down the middle.

I associate myself with all the remarks made by Senator Chambliss.