The cuts are deep. The needs are great. And I hope we can work together to try to narrow the gap.

In the 112th Congress, I was an original cosponsor of a joint resolution that disapproved of a nearly identical rule issued by the NLRB.

the way of the future for Afghanistan is with the national unity government, having a very professionalized army and police

If we had the Gates budget of 2012, the defense budget this year would be somewhere around $612 billion.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who still mistakenly believe there is a link to autism and are unaware that that study has been thoroughly discredited.

The president's budget request includes a $50 million cut to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Section 317 immunization program.

Do you seriously believe Putin cares about agreements?

I think we have to think about it in terms of the moral obligation to do that.

The question that bothers me is, okay, if we decide it's been in the National interest to close it, there still are some people there that are very dangerous.

if we're going to decide to close the facility and--or if, collectively, the United States Government's going to decide to close the facility based upon that, we'd better know that it's real, and not just a perceived threat.

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There has to be an offensive capability which our adversaries understand, and understand will be applied.

Will you give me a commitment that you're going to be just this side of obnoxious in making your case at the highest levels of the United States Government?

I think it's a serious problem that we're going to have to really put some attention to.

Well, in fact, because we're not members of that treaty, we are in--we are literally losing ground in the Arctic, isn't that correct?

The United States is an Arctic nation, and the security environment in the Arctic is changing as navigation passages open and access to natural resources, you know, opens up.

What is it you need in order to interdict more of those ships? Is it intelligence? Is it ships? Is it manpower?

I hope that you will focus very intensively on time and risk. I think those are the two factors.