During our whole debate, I was impressed several times, it was referenced about military families.

I certainly know what a resource you can be. And so I hope that you would be contacted.

I want to thank Congressman Dr. Joe Heck for recommending that this subcommittee conduct this hearing.

I want to thank Dr. Joe Heck for recommending that the Subcommittee conduct this hearing.

Dr. Heck very astutely recognized that military retirement would be a pivotal issue in the coming months.

Today the Military Personnel Subcommittee will address the subject of military retirement, an issue of immense importance to service members, and in turn to combat readiness.

I ask unanimous consent that the Defense Business Board report on their proposal to reform military retirement...

Mr. Speaker, I am grateful to congratulate the 2011 U.N. International Volunteer Award recipient, Dr. Animesh Sinha, who is a native of Irmo, South Carolina. Dr. Sinha is a general practitioner in Fiji, where he is the founder and medical…

I hope that every effort is made to work with military families and get their input.

Yes. Mr. McCONNELL. Am I correct, I would say to my friends from South Carolina and New Hampshire and Arizona, that because of the administration's opposition to a detainee treatment provision that was, I gather, approved overwhelmingly in…

I thank the Senator from Arizona and all of my colleagues working on what is a very difficult subject matter. When 25 to 1 is the outcome, that is pretty good. I like Senator Reid. This goes back to the White House. This is President…

The minority leader is absolutely right. I would add to my good friend from Kentucky, it is even more. It is not just about us. What we are denying General Petraeus, the new CIA Director, is new authorization language that he needs to…

We have a bipartisan proposal that will allow us as a nation to make rational decisions about detention, and the White House is holding it up. There are provisions in this bill that affect the day-to-day lives of the men and women in our…

Not only are most Americans upset about that but they worry about what comes down the road. That is what I am worried about. The Senate legislation is trying to create a pathway forward for the future. What do you do with these people we…

There is a tremendous untapped market for us in small business.

We need to make sure that the recovery continues and doesn't drop back and that unemployment rate continues to fall.

As a member of Congress from a very, very rural, small area in South Carolina who has only, I think, been to California twice in my life for a combined 15 hours, this has been a really neat experience to be here in this wonderful town that…

Less than 1 percent of the small businesses nationwide export at all, and 95 percent of the ones that do export to only one country.