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I think the SEC ought to stand up for the American dream.

What do you think about flexibility grants or block grants or making finite--instead of an open-ending fee for service kind of structure--what about taking a finite amount of money and saying look, this is what you have to spend, State X…

Knowing that we will continue to rely on Humvees for another 20 to 30 years, would you agree we need to make appropriate investments to sustain and modernize our Humvee fleet?

Concerns that warnings from our military about growing threats to U.S. air superiority are often dismissed as distant and far away.

I would just like to echo the words of Mr. Tonko. This is good legislation. It improves the Medicaid program. It ensures access to quality providers for our Medicaid recipients in all of our States. Also, it helps our States to determine…

This is the type of legislation that we should be passing on the House floor, and I will urge the Senate to pass this legislation later. This is just good government. It corrects some obvious flaws in the Medicaid program that will protect…

I appreciate the efforts of the SEC and Chair White in recent years to review and improve the structure of our equity markets.

What is the recourse here? What should the administration be doing to address this?

We ought to be putting pressure on the administration here to do something about it.

Working together is the only way we are going to solve this.

But the question is, do you have to have the pistol at the temple of the politician in order to get it done?

On rollcall No. 97, there was an error in the transaction of my electronic vote. My office and the Clerk are looking into the matter. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' Amendment No. 15 Offered by Mr. Young of Alaska The…

Senator Dan Coats, currently a Senator, was on this committee then, and he said at that hearing 25 years ago many of the States are way ahead of the Federal Government in terms of opening themselves up to more innovative solutions in…

The Federal education bureaucracy certainly has grown immensely. I would argue it has gotten out of control.

Whenever possible, I believe we need to act on our responsibility to ensure a leaner and more accountable Federal Government.

Make no mistake, if we stay on our present course, no one disputes that the country they inherit will be mired in debt, plagued by a weak economy, and left with fewer opportunities to earn a lifetime of success.

The concerns I have with out-of-control spending and skyrocketing debt is not just about dollars and cents, it is about the kind of future we are leaving our children and grandchildren.

What do you think a State like ours can do to incentivize people to go into these much needed fields?