I am delighted to be here to say aloha to Mary Schapiro and, of course, to your lovely family.
You have really increased my confidence in SEC and in our country's financial community.
I agree with Admiral Roughead, and appreciate his leadership in pursuing diversity throughout the Navy.
if you look at the Navy in its entirety, it's a representative mix of America's society. But if you look at the leadership, it tends to be v...
I am asking this as chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee. I have been working on what I am calling a seamless transition.
I believe our greatest challenge as we move to the future has to do with those unseen wounds, so to speak, the wounds of stress, the wounds ...
We cannot overstate the importance of our work.
If confirmed, each of you will face, without question, enormous challenges in DOD.
I feel that the men and women of the Pacific Command have maintained a remarkable level of stability.
Since 2002, 61 former detainees have committed or are suspected to have committed attacks after being released from the detention camp.
the Strategic Framework and Status of Forces Agreement symbolized a major step toward Iraq assuming full responsibility for its security.
It is imperative that we support our forward-deployed forces engaged in current operations but we must not overlook other important developm...
I look forward to working with him in the latest chapter of his notable career as Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
This Committee stands ready to work with the administration on this effort.
To speak the truth in the face of enormous pressure is not to take the easy way out.
As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the Federal Workforce of the Homeland Security and Governmental Af...
Thank you, and for the record, can you please report back to the Committee with a preliminary plan of action within 60 days?
The only way we can do in America what we do is because you all have done what you all did--protecting us and this country and giving us thi...
