We need to ensure that our communications infrastructure is robust and ready for the future.

I'm just curious about the consumer demand at this point.

Consumers, at the end of the day--if there's a financial incentive----customers are very interested.

I would rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who believe in the principles of freedom than 60 who don't believe in anything.

I'd rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who believe in the principles of freedom than 60 who don't believe in anything.

The one story I hear told over and over and over again, 'Senator Graham, this policy makes no sense. It is putting our folks at risk for no higher purpose. Quite frankly, here's what's going to start happening. We're going to take less…

Who the hell made this rule up? Why did you pick 96 hours versus 80 hours or 100 hours? I can't get anyone to tell me how this thing was formed, whose idea it was, and how it became policy.

Mr. Speaker, unemployment is still at double digits across the country; and in my home State of South Carolina, it is at a record high of 12.6 percent. Families are hurting, loosing jobs. With this dismal backdrop, why would the…

Mr. Speaker, in his State of the Union address last week, the President stepped up his rhetoric about fiscal responsibility. But just yesterday the President presented a budget reminiscent of last year's that spends too much, taxes too…

It is a good question, Mr. Lamborn, and we are talking about that among ourselves as veterans service organizations.

It would be useful, if Congress could articulate its wishes that, in fact, the VA must be specific, not generic, in its notices to veterans.

I just want to make sure that we're here to deliver for them, and that's why your testimony is so helpful.

Is there a strategy to deal with allowing people to retire early, but incentivizing them to stay from 20 to 30, based on the needs of the military?

We're running out of jail space for certain people, and we need to find confinement facilities that work.

Some of our allies refuse to turn prisoners over to us if they believe they could work their way to Guantanamo.

Would you support sending Guantanamo Bay detainees to Afghanistan, to Bagram? Is that a good idea?

I want to thank you for leading that charge, because I think our warfighters will appreciate that, particularly the marines down south.

I just want to let the committee know that you and Doug Stone and others involved with Camp Bucca is probably one of the great, great success stories of Iraq.