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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 24, 2009

If you'll serve 22 years, you can maybe retire at 50.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 24, 2009

The men and women of our superb Active and Reserve Armed Forces have been on a wartime footing now for over 7 years.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 24, 2009

Bad teeth are doing more damage to us than the enemy.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 24, 2009

I think moving retirement benefits from 30 to 40 years, where you can continue to accrue it, is a good step forward.

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Ben Bernanke
@benbernanke· Republican · SC· Mar 23, 2009

[T]he United States also needs improved tools to allow the orderly resolution of a systemically important nonbank financial firm, including a mechanism to cover the costs of the resolution.

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Ben Bernanke
@benbernanke· Republican · SC· Mar 23, 2009

Given how important robust payment and settlement systems are to financial stability, a good case can be made for granting the Federal Reserve explicit oversight authority for systemically important payment and settlement systems.

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Nancy Mace
@nancymace· Republican · SC· Mar 17, 2009

NextGen is something that the FAA cannot do alone. It requires the involvement of academia, industry and all of our stakeholders as we move ahead.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 17, 2009

When one of these storms hits or a catastrophe hits, no one asks your party affiliation.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 17, 2009

The fact that no one was prepared for a million displaced families is not shocking.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 17, 2009

Okay. Major General Rubenstein and Brigadier General Sutton, is that disturbing?

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 17, 2009

I think what we have is a resource problem, but, more than anything else, we have a holdover of stigma.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 17, 2009

I know this is hard, but that's the most overwhelming evidence I've heard that there is a real stigma problem here.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 17, 2009

But do we, as a matter of routine, inform the military, 'You have a problem here'?

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 17, 2009

Do you believe there's a shortage of mental health counselors in the military?

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 17, 2009

The Army's suicide rate has doubled from 2004 to now.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 17, 2009

$50 million sounds like a lot of money to me. Do you support that initiative?

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 17, 2009

We know that statistically suicide is rare yet it remains one of the leading causes of death among young adults.

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