Thank you, Madam Chairman. I appreciate Senator Whitehouse letting me go in front of him.
I am one of the strongest advocates of strong, robust investment in our Nation's transportation system.
Gary Ridley has been a witness at this table more than any other one person. He is our Secretary of Transportation in Ok...
I have a message I have to deliver here, and I will need your help in doing this.
I want to make sure everybody knows it.
I am not on this Subcommittee. However, I was chairman of this full Committee when the Republicans were in the majority,...
I have traveled to Africa more than any other Senator in the history of the United States.
What about the high-risk posts? How many posts would you consider high risk high threat at that time?
And that was our concern as well that obviously the Libyan militia was not sufficient.
We didn't have a high enough number of diplomatic security personnel.
the first line of defense is the local government.
It was listed as a high-risk facility, and we seem to not have a contingency plan.
I cannot imagine what it was like to start the travel here and to know that the destination was going to end up right he...
There are people all over the country that care deeply about this, small towns and big towns, and they stand with you.
We need to, in almost everything we do, ask this question: how do we get a better result for less money?
I actually believe we ought to let the Board of Governors (BOG) have a lot of power in running this business.
It is better. We had a big deficit of $1.4 trillion about 4 years ago, huge deficit, and it is now only about $700 billi...
I predicted it. When we passed the last Postal bill, I said we would be back here because we are not setting up a compet...
