I would like to thank Chairman Akaka but also and especially Senator Voinovich for your leadership and commitment
Your continued call for an efficient, effective Federal security clearance process has helped bring positive and lasting...
We're going to go through hopefully a yearlong study that will hopefully also have the feelings of the men and women who...
The day that the -- the leadership of the military comes to me and says, 'Senator, we ought to change the policy,' then ...
We need a thorough and complete study of the effects, not how to implement a repeal, but the effects on morale and battl...
What I am opposed to is bringing up the defense bill now, before the Defense Department has concluded its survey of our ...
The service chiefs -- and we will be talking about this on the floor -- all of them have said they wanted a complete stu...
The American people have been telling Washington that promoting job growth must be the first priority.
We have to obviously cut spending.
It does not create jobs. The stimulus package was supposed to create jobs.
I hope that's not the case. I think there's enough here that we do need to do something.
I never anticipated that this would devolve into a political issue between Republicans and Democrats.
What do we need to do in order to stimulate ... to satisfy our defense needs which, as you know, require some of these m...
Thank you for holding this hearing because it comes in light of some interesting international events.
We do not expect the Federal Government to get into the mining business, but we hope to create an environment where busi...
If trade conflicts escalate between the United States and China, ... you could see further restraints on the part of the...
I think we need to look at this issue from a national security standpoint clearly since there are materials that go into...
97 percent--is that correct, Mr. Eggert--of the rare earth products come from China?
