If we don't get help from Congress to reset our equipment when we pull out of Afghanistan, we are at risk to respond to contingencies.

You pay now or you pay a lot more later.

There are a lot of people that I serve with, in the U.S. Senate, who don't hold defending America as high a priority as I do.

I won't sit here and tell you we're perfect and that we're meeting our requirements exactly, but we're focused on it, and think we're improving.

I really believe that we need to sit down and take a hard look at the planning that has been done for Guam.

If nothing else, I think the last 2 weeks has again reinforced the importance of our military bases in Japan to the Japanese people.

I don't think we need a timeout, but I think we need to make sure that we are moving into the right structure before we put this forward.

I certainly don't want to spend a lot of money on preparing to move this force, knowing that, at the end of the day, all of the predicates that we made the decision on are no longer valid.

Madam President, I notice we did not have any speakers here so I thought I would come down. We do have a bill in consideration right now, in process for a vote. It is my understanding there will be a vote on amendment No. 183 in the next…

I think we all embrace the significant air improvements that we have had from the Clean Air Act.

But environmental regulations must be tempered by economic realities.

I think we need to know what those costs are. That was introduced by Senator Johanns and myself yesterday. It is called the Comprehensive Assessment Regulations in Economy or CARE Act.

I think the recent EPA study clearly showed biases in this area and I am quite surprised...

I would only mention, and ask if you disagree with this segment of the unions, in terms of the boiler MACT up to 800,000 jobs at risk.

I applaud Senator Inhofe for introducing the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 to preclude EPA from using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases.

A regulatory approach to regulating greenhouse gas emissions would cost six times as much as the cap and trade approach that Congress has already rejected.

I have joined him on his bill that is going to require the EPA or a new commission made up of the Secretaries of Energy...

I believe, and so do many other economists, that imposing, that using the Clean Air Act toolkit to regulate greenhouse gases would impose unnecessary costs and would have next to no health benefits for the United States.