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The battle over Chuck Hagel's nomination is over. The Senate today confirmed the former Nebraska senator as Defense secretary. The vote was 58-41.

I agree with the President. We need to focus here in Congress on how we attract more jobs to our shores.

Senate Republicans today blocked a vote to confirm defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel.

The elimination of coal as a fuel for new electric generation would have highly concerning implications for electricity prices, and for the economy, and job creation in general, as well as the competitiveness of American manufacturing.

When you are making friends around the world, when you are developing partners and allies, you are developing the next generation of global citizens who see America helping them.

I do not personally believe that you can eliminate the command structure in the military from this process.

The President's fiscal year 2014 budget continues to implement the $487 billion in spending reductions over 10 years agreed to in the Budget Control of 2011, as Senator Sessions noted.

We cannot stand by and allow this unbalanced approach to remain the law of the land.

I made this decision very reluctantly. I made it reluctantly because I recognize the significant hardship this places on our civilian personnel across the country and their families.

We have a constitutional obligation to provide for the defense of this Nation of ours and a moral responsibility to pass a safe Nation on to our children.

I think we all accept it is a crime, and it needs to be treated as a crime.

It is, I think, a critically important part of our foreign policy, clearly in our national interest.

If you do not hold people accountable, then you are not going to fix the problem.

DOD, I think in many ways, has been bloated. The Defense Department has gotten everything it has wanted the last 10 years and more. We have taken priorities. We have taken dollars. We have taken programs. We have taken policies out of the…

I feel that expanding natural gas into vehicles will help our country not only because we are using a domestic product but the fact that diversity in auto fuels enhances our national security status.

My understanding is that the Navy has complied with the law and submitted the report to Congress on 1 February 2013.

We cannot rebalance or pivot towards Asia without Europe.

The nations of Europe make up the majority of an alliance key to our collective defense strategy.