The allocation of the D Block to public safety enables public safety to know that the network and communication will be there when needed.

This legislation fulfills a remaining unmet recommendation of the 9/11 Commission Report, to provide public safety with the ability to establish seamless interoperability throughout the United States.

CBO's net score for the Medicare Modernization Act was $394 billion, which included nearly $410 billion in new spending for the prescription drug benefit.

When Republicans passed the Medicare Modernization Act in 2003, they did not offset its costs.

These actions will not save money, it will simply abdicate responsibility and shift costs to State providers and beneficiaries.

The time to act is now. The 10-year anniversary of 9/11 is quickly approaching; however, public safety continues to lack the ability to communicate effectively.

How many lives could we save if we could provide EMS and emergency room doctors with video capabilities to see injuries and provide guidance at the scene and while in transport to medical facilities?

In the same way when a baseball player hits a homer, it both adds one run to this team's score and also improves his batting average.

They had 6 years of control of the House, Senate and White House and provided no leadership on this issue.

do you believe that we can raise any revenue now and it would help us to close the deficit?

the Bush tax cuts cost us about a loss in revenue of $1.6 trillion, and the extension for the 2 years, $500 billion.

They are getting a tax increase, but most economists agree that our corporate tax rate is too high at 35 percent.

If we borrowed the money in order to do it, the answer is yes.

If I was to share with you where we would get that money would be in closing tax loopholes.

Sometimes my colleagues and I--hopefully not me--will put a hold on someone's name in order to get some kind of leverage for an entirely unrelated item.

I think we are going to try to take about 400 or 450 out of that so that we reduce by about 30, 35 percent the number of positions that require confirmation.

We do not have any specific information about specific individuals from any organization who are part of this. But, of course, we're still getting to know those who are leading the trans -- the transitional national council and that will…

These are taxpayers, they are workers. They don't deserve to be treated like that.