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I appreciate your pragmatism on these issues.

And, frankly, that's pretty disgusting when you're spending that kind of money there, and you're trying to help people, and you get no appreciation for it.

The political stalemate be broken.

What we are concerned about, obviously, is with this focus on the political malaise, with this focus on the political unrest, that the very real threat to Yemen, to us, to the people of the region, from al-Qaeda and from extremists, is…

In closing, workers must be treated as partners in the battle to protect our vulnerable rail and public transit systems, and, through proper training, they will be prepared to do so.

While I applaud the SEC for taking a more flexible approach relative to CFTC, both agencies need to make their rules more accommodative of the different types of SEFs to provide maximum choice in trade execution to market participants.

We should not then be surprised when the two agencies propose inconsistent approaches to the same rule sets.

While the Dodd-Frank Act missed a great opportunity, in my opinion, to merge the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission and stop the bifurcation of futures and securities markets--we lost that opportunity then--we should at least…

We should not then be surprised that the two agencies have proposed inconsistent approaches to the same rule sets.

While Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act states that the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shall consult and coordinate to the extent possible for the purpose of assuring regulatory consistency and compatibility, it appears…

The more dialogue and debate on these matters of life and death, I think the better for all of us.

Is that fair enough?

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual imminent threat to the Nation.

As you know, President Obama's predecessor, for every conflict that occurred under his watch, he came to Congress and asked for authorization.

I would really urge someone to sit down with a pad and a pencil and come up with some specific numbers.

Now, that may be true, but I don't think there's an American who believes that.

I listen to President Karzai talk about us as an occupying force and I see a country sitting on a trillion dollars of mineral deposits.

I wonder when I see the Pakistani Intelligence Service arresting Pakistanis who provided information that led to our finding bin Laden.