Our Federal system is designed to, at the local level, have the most impact.

hopefully the President is just blowing off steam again but if he's even half serious, this is nuts.

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yesterday at the White House, two terrible things happened, and it shouldn't be difficult to condemn both of these things at once. First, at the podium in the White House press room, it was suggested that the U.S. Government is unsure if…

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I think it's very alarming. I think it's--the next December 7 won't be airplanes with torpedos coming at Pearl Harbor. It's going to be triggered with an attack on our energy grid, with rolling blackouts and chaos.

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I rise today to continue my tribute to Nebraska's heroes: the current generation of men and women who lost their lives defending our freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each of these Nebraskans has a special story to tell. Sergeant Lonnie…

It might be just a pure budgetary constraint, but yet an artificial one that perhaps keeps some people from the quality of care that they deserve.

We are just paying electrical utility bills or it is not meeting its highest and best use.

we have to find the right balance between the movement toward a singular goal which is care for our veterans, not a debate over whether this is going to be public or this is going to be private.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Yes, but that is your mandate, 25 percent renewable by 2025.

The great thing about the American public is that we ask for their help when it comes to helping veterans and they step up.

So I think this question of excess inventory perhaps is too broad.

This is a new term: MISC. It stands for miscellaneous military installation savings commission.

We are getting ready to break ground, based upon the new piece of legislation that was passed just fairly recently on a new ambulatory care center.