Don didn't wait for a codel of a lot of people to be organized to go to a troubled spot.

If Donald Payne is not there, that door must be locked and the rest of us can give up.

He was known because he understood that as a public policy maker he could influence education in this country, and he certainly did that.

Don Payne was a true servant who not only served his State of New Jersey, but Donald Payne was someone who took care of his district.

The country is poorer for the loss of Donald Payne, but this country is greater for his public service.

Americans are scratching their head looking at the data.

I want to commend the State Department, Mr. Donahue, for your process of prescreening applicants for visas.

You shouldn't have to keep coming back to Congress because the law is the law of the land right now.

The disconnect of agencies talking to one another wasn't there.

I am very concerned about the 20,000 personnel reduction in the Marine Corps.

The proposed major reductions to end strength, compensation programs, and health care programs sap our combat capability.

I feel like sequestration again is somehow singling out the Department of Defense, the military.

I am very concerned, as Congressman Austin Scott pointed out last week, that there seems to be a move for free health care for everybody except for service members, military families, and veterans.

Wilson, Hon. Joe, a Representative from South Carolina, Chairman, Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

I am concerned with a $256.8 million reduction for the ground-based midcourse defense program that this program will be at risk.

We hear all the time that we just can't make a difference, but we can in a huge country; 40 million people.

I am very proud. I have four sons currently serving under your command, and I am very grateful.

I am mighty proud of the success of Plan Colombia.