This goes on and on, a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Well, I'll try to be brief since everybody's about frozen.

I think he is exactly wrong in terms of both his explanation related to the Recovery Act and its impact as well as what are the policies that provide us with the biggest bang for our buck.

So potentially if we cut too much too quick and we have the expiration of the Recovery Act funds, with the State and local governments facing significant deficits to start with, couldn't we endanger the recovery?

Isn't it likely that the combination of all of those things would result in the recovery slowing as opposed to quickening?

So that fact, coupled with draconian cuts proposed, for example, in Chairman Ryan's plan, which is like an anti-Recovery Act, would you give us a sense whether you think large spending cuts like that right away would be an additional drain…

Just by way of comparison, would you say that unemployment compensation, a payroll tax holiday, other kinds of policies that put money directly into the hands of lower-income individuals, would provide more bang for the buck for the…

And, on health care, the Affordable Care Act included numerous provisions to contain costs by moving from a payment system that rewards quantity to one rewards quality, and value and efficiency.

Madam President, others have already spoken on this amendment. It is to take out unnecessary language in the bill that has been superseded by the NASA authorization bill we have passed. The letters in NASA, the first A is aeronautics, the…

Madam President, do I need to set aside the pending amendment to call up amendment 34? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The amendment is now pending, under the previous order.

And I would especially appreciate your responses and the Department of State's responses to the U.N. overpayment issue and the refund.

Thank you so much for your excellent testimony.

How concerned are you about the fraudulent use of student visas, or any visas for that matter?

I find this recommendation, of course, very troubling.

Rape is when a woman is forced to have sex against her will. That is whether she is conscious, unconscious, mentally stable, not mentally stable.

When you end up with responsibility over an important committee like ours, you try to set some priorities.

Mr. President, I am proud to honor Ronald Reagan on the 100th anniversary of his birth. President Reagan was a man who inspired millions of Americans to serve their country and fulfill its promise as the shining city on a hill. His genial…

Madam President, the NASA bill we passed last fall strongly reaffirmed that aeronautics research is an integral part of the agency and made the point in that bill of increasing a focus on NASA's aeronautics research programs. As a matter…