The government should immediately identify and suspend the visas of all persons listed in the broadest terrorist database.

Our government's efforts to detect and disrupt terrorist plots must be strengthened.

It sounds deja-vu all over again.

It is my understanding that the request has been in your office for a year.

The sooner we act, the lower they can be.

To paraphrase the Senator for whom this building is named, a trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you are talking about a real fiscal catastrophe.

I think people ignore trillions of dollars worth of debt which is real.

I know there are many who are concerned about the no amendment provision.

I want to join you in commending Senator Conrad and Senator Gregg for their extraordinary leadership in this area.

Thus, our decisionmaking must begin by reconsidering spending that, although popular, simply cannot be justified during this fiscal crisis.

What do economists believe is a level of debt as measured by a percentage of GDP that is acceptable versus worrisome?

The basic problem is that government has promised more than our citizens can afford to pay.

I cannot help but observe the irony that we are having this debate about what to do with the unsustainable debt load of this country at a time that we are debating on the Senate floor a huge health care bill that is, in essence, creating a…

I agree with that approach as opposed to the more narrow approach recommended by some of our colleagues.

I believe it is imperative that we build a baseline of capabilities all across this country.

It is crucial that the Department can identify, measure, and assess what this money has bought and what future investments are needed.

So I hope that as we appropriately, in response to the Mexican cartel problem, focus resources and efforts on the southwest border, we do not create a new vulnerability on our northern border.

As Senator Lieberman has indicated, we wrote the law that restored the administration of the grant programs to FEMA.