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Ladies and gentlemen, nations go to war on imperfect information, and the decisions that we make here impact people's lives very closely, very intimately.

Operating under continuing resolutions (CRs) for extended periods of time complicates the execution of the Department's plan.

Good healthy discussion. Thank you, Representative Davidson for your comments, and your desire to seek improvement in our process.

It's very risky to transfer nuclear, chemical, or biological technology if you care for the preservation--the long-term preservation of your regime.

So, we shouldn't play Charlie Brown to their Lucy once again on that football.

It's one thing to sit down and talk with an adversary. We did that with the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. It's another thing to bribe that adversary to sit down and talk with us.

This week, the USS Carl Vinson arrives in Da Nang, Vietnam. This is the first visit of a U.S. aircraft carrier to Vietnam in four decades, and obviously for a very different purpose. Together, Vietnam and America are demonstrating the…

We're cooperating with the Mueller team. They're confident because they're cooperating with the Mueller team that there's essentially nothing that the president should worry about.

This is something the President is committed to doing and he feels that both our national security are vitally important in this process and we have to be able to have these industries to protect that.

Again, I'm not going to go into the specific details of how the process works, but I can say that we learned of the extent of the situation --

Russia has been developing destabilizing weapons over a decade in direct violation of its treaty obligations. President Trump understands the threat facing America and our allies in this century and he is determined to protect our homeland…

Look, Jared is still a valued member of the administration and he's going to continue to focus on the work that he's been doing, and we're going to continue pushing forward on that front, as well.

U.S. defense capabilities are, and will remain second to none. And now because of the new defense budget of $700 billion, our military will be far stronger than ever.

I want to talk about the labor market, in particular wage growth for America's workers.

Without the navigation, there is no way. Grain would be spoiled on the ground, and our balance in trade would quickly go out the back door.

We are trying to make it such that we allow the State Revolving Funds--the SRFs--to bundle multiple drinking water and wastewater projects together.

I do not think that is good for American citizens. I do not think that is good for our economy, and I will continue to work hard to make sure that those workers share in the prosperity that all Americans in the upper-income brackets…

One of my top priorities is to ensure that hardworking Arkansans can share in the economic prosperity that we see in our country in ways that they have not over the course of my lifetime.