John Ensign: “I appreciate this hearing. Hopefully we'll be able to move his nomination process as quickly as possible.”

We have to have the kind of tax policy because you cannot just cut your way out of this.

We need to get control of these entitlements for today.

I wish to talk about gasoline prices and energy. Just a few years ago, this Nation was in the middle of an energy crisis not unlike the one we are in today. Back then Nevadans were confronted with record prices at the gas pump, and this…

to wrap up this debate, let me address, first of all, the whole idea that changing this treaty in any way kills the treaty. Under the Constitution, certainly it is the President's role, the administration's role, to negotiate the treaties…