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I have seen firsthand in Maine the difference that these courts can make in helping people straighten out their lives.

That was appalling to both the ranking member, Senator Claire McCaskill, and to me.

What can the Department do to be more aggressive in prosecuting these scams which aggregate in the billions of dollars, and will you pledge that from now on the Department will cooperate with our investigations?

One of the President's independent review groups which looked at this law, Mike Morrell, the former deputy director of the CIA, as well as the former director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, have said that had this program been in place prior…

I would like to thank the Department and NOAA for supporting the Penobscot River Restoration project (over $20 million).

I ask that the Department as well as the U.S. Trade Representative... be very engaged with U.S. forestry stakeholders and the Canadian Government.

Our highly skilled paper workers in Maine can compete successfully whenever there's a level playing field, but they cannot compete when a foreign government is providing more than $100 million of subsidies to a mill that is manufacturing…

Is it fair to say that all of you agree that we must modernize our nuclear capacity, and second, we must look to greater flexibility in terms of the nuclear deterrent?

I think often the fault of American foreign policy is thinking that other people think like us and not understanding what cultural and historic differences, and that is why I am so cautious about Putin.

The ongoing conflict in the Ukraine is very much a nuclear crisis.

If you are playing chess with a Russian, you better think at least three moves ahead.

For whom deterrence is not a concern.

If sequestration were to come back in 2016, what impact would it have on the unit cost of the F-35?

I know enough to defer to Senator Shelby on this issue regardless of who got here first.

I totally share your belief that sequestration needs to go away permanently, and it would have devastating impacts if it does.

I am very concerned about the state of readiness of the Air Force

Thank you, Chairman Cochran and Ranking Member Durbin, for holding this hearing to review the Department of the Air Force's fiscal year 2016 budget submission.

If sequestration is not removed, the unit cost is going to go right back up