There should be no dispute that the money we spend to maintain and grow our infrastructure is an investment.
Had we not done that, where would we be today? I would argue that we have received a tremendous return on that investment.
The most important part, however, is that one of the two major functions of Government, and you have heard me say over the years, national d...
For me to get something done, you have to help me, and I have to have support out there in saying, we want to get back to building roads and...
We have to be building the stuff that brings the highest rate of return to our case.
This should have been done a month ago.
a rulemaking consistent with the Clean Water Act and the Supreme Court decisions was critical.
This bill hasn't even been through a committee. We haven't had the debate in our committee on this bill to know if it is the best thing to d...
Think about all the sources of food we get in this country. And the diverse places they come from and, yet only 34 people get a staph poison...
And I'm all for saying let's just not have any earmarks.
According to your report, 30 percent of those who turned in a survey said repealing DADT would have a negative impact on their ability to co...
if it ain't broke, don't fix it. It has worked. I really believe it has worked.
This is not a social thing. This is combat effectiveness. That is what the country pays Marines to do.
It is my opinion that this created a perception that the decision had been made from the President on down.
As I see it now, the policy approved in 1993 has worked and I do not see a need to change something that is not impacting our force.
the panel assessed that repeal of DADT poses a low risk to military effectiveness.
A retention drop of 23 percent would be significant.
70 percent of military members think that repeal would have a positive, mixed, or no effect on unit effectiveness.
