They were asking Congress for a blank check, with no protections for the taxpayers.
When I took over the gavel of this Committee in January of 2007, we held an extended set of hearings...
We are looking for a system that works here, making some decisions.
I am not--I don't know whether you want to acknowledge that number as something that is the number that the Department o...
The American economy was on the brink of total collapse.
I think it goes back to what Senator Lieberman opened up the hearing with, which is how do you create an ongoing sense o...
We could not agree with you more. I mean, it is obvious.
This is very disappointing, that two of the five labs with the most dangerous pathogens... still have great gaps in thei...
we are dealing again with a tension that we have dealt with from the beginning of America, which is between security and...
Senators Lieberman and Collins have taken a strong leadership role in introducing the Weapons of Mass Destruction Preven...
the one that we suffered a total and embarrassing failure on was the attempt to reform us
I agree with you, Senator Talent, for the kudos to Senator Akaka.
Today, we are going to hear testimony on legislation that Senator Collins and I introduced earlier this month to prevent...
I suppose that is a notice to anybody out there who has any input they want to give our Committee before we go to markup...
The fact is from all this that it is hard not to conclude that we are still not properly prepared to counter the threat ...
we really put into legislation almost every one of the recommendations that the 9/11 Commission made
That is a good idea.
Hope springs eternal. Senator Collins and I are both very stubborn people and we are not going to give up on this
