Madam Chair, we have talked about this privately before, but does the Fed still use the Phillips rule in a lot of its deliberations?

the Nation's highest priority mission.

If they're right and some event happens and I even hate to say this, if an event happens, it will change the make-up of going forward, for whatever that event is, it will impact this election in a way that we probably haven't seen before.

But even after leadership changes, data showed that the Central Alabama VA's two medical centers in Montgomery and Tuskegee were ranked the worst and the second worst in the Nation for delays in patient care. By any measure, the Central…

Without the Russian engine right now, there could be a gap, as I mentioned, in national security working with our Air Force, everything else. Could it be?

I am concerned that some of my Senate colleagues may not fully appreciate the policy of assured access to space.

Having come out of a think tank environment working in a think tank world for 25 years, I'm very much data-driven.

I think we all would accept the basic premise we want to build our own engine.

I think it's somewhere north of 25,000 pages, Mr. Chairman, and that includes all the regulations related to ObamaCare, somewhere north of 25,000 pages.

The cost of regulations on our economy last year was right around $2 trillion. That's a little over $15,000 per household.

It's killing us in terms of disposable income that would go into the economy and in terms of investment capital that could go into business startups.

I constantly run into people who talk to me about the regulatory environment, the uncertainty, and how difficult it is today to start a business.

If we're going to have a constitutional government, we've got to get back to Congress making law rather than the executive branch bypassing Congress.

I think our allies and our adversaries may get the wrong impression about the willingness and capability of the United States to respond.

The fiscal year 2017 MDA budget request is $300 million below what the President anticipated last year in the 2016 5-year budget.

It is problematic that there is no money in the whole five-year plan.

It would please me if Alabama came home.

If I were running the world, I'd say, 'I want to build bombs, and I don't want to build buildings.'