I hope that once you are confirmed, and I assume that you will be confirmed, that you will make it a priority to get that process going.

a U.S. Senator from the State of Maine

Thank you, Chairman.

I think that is a serious national security concern.

It is really profoundly worrying across-the-board.

What will probably keep happening is that we will see an increased neutering of the State Department and of diplomacy more broadly.

Defending the national security of the United States involves a continuum, it seems to me, that goes from diplomacy to war.

I use the word 'preposterous' that later today or tomorrow, we are going to pass a bill that is going to take between a minimum of $1.5 trillion and probably more like $2.2 trillion out of the budget.

The reason Iran is not North Korea today is because of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that was passed 2 years ago.

I am very disappointed that that is not part of the discussion.

Applications are down something like 30 percent.

The real question being ask tonight is, what tax bill? Believe it or not Anderson, nobody's seen it.

But to me for him to say it's going to hurt me, that doesn't square with what we saw from his '05 return.

To call this a circus would be an insult to circuses.

The Bangor City council wouldn't amend the leash law with a process like this. I mean it's embarrassing.

It's just a hell of a way to run a railroad.

That absolutely should be our goal, and I cannot tell you how frustrated these pharmacists were.

I very much enjoyed our discussion in my office on drug pricing, an issue that is very important to all of us.