I think it is very challenging service on which you embark.
I think, if I could, I'd like to start by focusing on that recent experience in Islamabad and your understanding of the difficulties of sort...
I'll just associate myself with Senator Casey's expressed concerns about the Israeli-Egyptian relationship, the security at the border, the ...
I'm very concerned about recent events about what this weekend's resignation of military leadership really means.
So in my view for the good of future generations, this has got to be a priority.
I am encouraged by what we are doing in these big deficits in a struggle to get an economy moving.
What I want to do is to provide for a reasonable response when a President says, my hands are tied.
I think that is an approach that we need to move or migrate toward.
But one of the problems we ran into in the 1990's was, at a time when we were constrained for a while with revenue growth, we saw the operat...
I think the balance of this bill has it right, because what it basically says is that nothing happens unless Congress affirmatively enacts t...
I think on earmarks the argument--I do not know if Senator Levin made it while I was out of the room, but if we have a grant program, we wil...
We finally, with the leadership of this man to my left and Senator McCain and this President, we basically pulled the plug on the F-22.
The President says it is wasteful spending. Secretary Gates says it is wasteful spending.
I have always favored a second engine because I believe competition will drive the price of that engine down.
I think that drawing up that legislation is more complicated and I think it is politically more challenging.
The solution is a multi-year, comprehensive fiscal plan that tackles all areas of the budget.
That level of debt was not sustainable then and it is not sustainable today.
We are like Moses standing on the mountain top looking at the promised land.
