Mr. President, in December of 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act after it passed this body with overwhelming bipartisan support--85 of 100 Senators supported the bill. The Wall Street Journal called the Every…

We can't turn our back on providing the unemployed and underemployed citizens with the services that they need to find a job.

We look forward to working with you to find ways to stretch those dollars further as well.

This ability to respond and protect, you know, is, again, every bit as important as our ability to protect our fellow citizens against terrorists.

So our goal is to fashion a budget that focuses on the things that work, that tries to decrease the areas where there are either duplications or redundancies or waste.

these are public dollars, and that scrutiny is very, very appropriate and questions from all sides are very, very appropriate.

if Americans are willing to support you with their checks, large and small, it suggests to me that you have done your mission.

I want to thank my friend for her testimony.

You have to wait for that same fish to swim by again, in the same spot.

I could not disagree more, but even in emergency situations, where we have seen agencies step in and say, 'This is so vitally important. We need to engage right now for public safety and health,' there are mistakes even in that, and we…

You will be glad to know that Oklahoma has more fresh water shoreline than any other State in the union.

You have worked with us before, at OIRA, and you are familiar with the process. What would that look like, as far as an executive action or a codification or--how would you consider something like that fitting into how we do our government?

How does that work in the science, and I am still thinking about the legislative side of this.

to govern is to choose, and we will have some tough choices, I have no doubt, to make.

I think it is very important for people to understand, because that--I think that--that, frankly, wall of independence is really critical to your mission and retaining the confidence that you need to retain, frankly, across the political…

I would encourage dialogue with us. We have a bill dealing with sound science, and it is not a partisan bill.

If we don't get to a good number in the nondefense area, we will inevitably end up doing something that nobody on either side of the aisle wants to do.

We are either going to have a continuing resolution or we are going to have a negotiated bipartisan agreement.