Our prosperity and our security now depend on a very skilled technical workforce, which is in high demand both in government and industry.

I agree with the importance the NPR places on Russia joining us in any effort to move to lower nuclear force levels.

I intend to modernize or replace the triad strategic nuclear delivery system.

Several of us on this side of the aisle and on the other side of the aisle made an effort to include tactical nuclear weapons at the time that we were looking at the New START program.

It is critical, is it not, to modernization?

I have been concerned, as we all have, for some years about the potential of cyberattacks on our electricity grid here in the United States and the potential effects that such attacks would have on the critical missions, especially during an emergency or during periods of prolonged power outages.

General Alexander, how much storage capability do we have there for emergency diesel electric generators and will our back-up electric power capability cover all our mission critical functions or only a subset, and if so, which subsets?

I do think he's got to set his sights on Santorum. Newt is fading.

Hopefully, it's policy oriented, that's where it needs to be, not personal.

We have made real progress in our job creation efforts.

I want to say first, I think the budget the President proposed is a very good budget on both the tax side and the spending side.

I want to tell my Republican colleagues, it is my view that the Buffett rule is going to be on the floor of this Senate and we are going to debate it this year.

We want to help them. I have spent 36 years here trying to help people.

In that op-ed, Drs. Furman and Goolsbee stated that then-Senator Obama's tax proposal would reduce revenues to less than 18.2 percent of GDP.

it is true that they will affect a portion of small businesses, but a very, very small portion of small businesses, 2 to 3 percent, roughly, depending on how you measure it.

I do not see any of that money going for deficit reduction.

I have only been here 36 years, but I have gone through it over and over where a Democratic administration has come in and said, we just need more taxes and we will cut spending. We have given them the more taxes, and the spending has never been cut.