I believe our Congress, in a bipartisan way, is open to having a more robust assistance to the Afghan forces.

The President of the United States has made some very unwise decisions in this regard.

the spending caps that were put on defense through the BCA are moronic and need to be gone.

I think President Obama will listen, and I think we can have bipartisan support here for a more realistic approach to the drawdown in Afghanistan.

I think that is a dangerous signal to be sending.

It needs to end successfully.

I think to completely move out and radically reduce our presence incredibly risk the gains our men and women have fought so hard for.

It is essentially not a fighting force. It signals that we are completely out of the fight militarily, I would suggest.

I believe that we can all agree that community banks and credit unions play a vital role in our local economies.

I hope this Committee will produce that sort of movement.

If a regulation's costs outweigh its benefits, I believe it should be thrown out.

We don't have enough money to run this government, and the deficits will continue to rise.

We do have a problem with defense spending. It is causing me great concern as a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Budget for a couple of years.

The Defense Department has to tell us what they are going to spend the money on and how much it is.

By 2019, interest on the debt will exceed the entire defense budget.

I believe it is time to reverse this trend.

It is a cash business and we should make no mistake about it. It could be an Al-Qaeda affiliate. Al-Nusra or Al-Sham that is in Syria. It could be a criminal enterprise that understands their value is a cash proposition.

This is, a, very plausible and b, in both Lebanon and Jordan, it is, because of the border issues there, the large number of people from Syria coming over, the large number of refugee camps, this is absolutely plausible and that's what…