Washington loves to talk with flourishes, but generally calls for more bureaucracy as the answer to the problems.
What I would like to see the Department of the Interior do is say, 'We are going to open up the Bakken oil field in Montana on Federal lands...
We are having stealth tax increases, as Mr. Duncan noted, at the pump.
Are you or are you not going to increase the public lands available for hydraulic fracturing?
If no action is taken on January 1, 2013, between expiration of tax cuts, sequestration, and a number of other measures, there will be a ver...
the United States needs to build a more normal defense relationship with Georgia, including defensive arms sales in coordination with our NA...
It is not in America's interest to leave Georgia without adequate means to defend itself.
We have people in harm's way over there and we need to understand what is best for them.
I want to be on the record denouncing Senator McCain's attack on the University of Alabama.
The theory is if we did a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Afghans where we have an enduring relationship past 2014 in the areas of ...
Do you think that Congress should look at granting greater authority?
Winning to me would be withdrawing our forces in a fashion that we could leave where Afghanistan has security forces sufficient to defeat th...
if President Karzai continues to insist on us turning over 3,044 law-of-war prisoners that we hold at Parwan prison humanely, a great center...
I feel like what he did was in the best interest of our troops.
Shouldn't we have a hearing one day, Mr. Chairman, about how a system competitively bid could be so overrun with costs and find out where th...
Maybe we should be thinking about are these requirements too severe, given the threats that we face and all the good programs are at risk.
I guess my concern is that the lessons learned from the last 10 years is you can't go to war without the Guard and Reserve.
I just find that hard to believe. The U-2 is a great platform and great crews and maintainers, but I just can't believe that a manned aircra...