The Congress added the Chief of the National Guard Bureau as a statutory member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because we believed the Preside...
My opponent raises money in a slightly different way. She has a Super PAC which, among other special interests, has received $15 million fro...
Next week, Arizona has a very important election. We will win if the voter turnout is high. Let's make it high.
I think Bernie Sanders is already had a huge impact on this race ... and he's got a lot of money.
I think when we do that we encourage dependency, the opposite of sustainable development.
I appreciate you putting that on hold for two years.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Secretary, I thank you particularly for your comments on the Affordable Care Act, where we have changed the s...
I think you just extend the date, at least five years, or maybe indefinitely to study this issue.
I think USAID has to adapt to a rapidly changing world, but so do we in the Congress.
Are you at all concerned that some of our programs may do more to reinforce dependency than foster self-reliance?
I have urged USAID, both in Republican and Democratic administrations, to move away from a model that too often dictates to local population...
USAID, not counting the other trillions of dollars we spend, has spent over $17 billion since 2002 on development projects in Afghanistan, e...
I think USAID's core purpose should be sustainable development, and I know from our conversations, you believe that, too.
Finally, I think we are getting a consensus that early intervention and prevention is better than hospitalization and jails.
All that money spent on the criminal justice system could have been spent on research-based and evidence-based approaches that would actuall...
Patrick J. Leahy
If something in your service caused you a disability, we need to compensate that disability. It is that simple.
Here is where Mr. Weidman is absolutely correct. Here's a blast. That is definitive.