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The Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) program should be the 'crown jewel' of VA benefits.

I would like to thank all of our men and women in uniform who are currently serving in our Armed Forces, the veterans who have answered our Nation's call to duty, and particularly thank the families who have lost a loved one while in…

I can assure you that we will continue to work together in bipartisan manner to review current programs, to determine if they meet the needs of veterans and their dependents, while we continue to look for new opportunities to strengthen…

This is a team fight, and there have been a number of things, hopefully, policies, we have put in place that have improved just the way in which we deal with military families.

The airlines do have an issue that the Federal Government owns the production line of a major commercial industry and that's the airlines.

We need to get the FAA reauthorized. They are the principal agency responsible for managing air travel and ensuring that it's safe.

I've advocated airlines disclosing on their websites notifying consumers and fliers before they purchase airline tickets about whether the flight is chronically delayed or chronically canceled.

I think largely we lost our focus.

What is keeping that from happening? Is that just the will to do it? Is it a resource issue?

I do want to thank all our nominees for their willingness to serve.

I want to associate myself with the comments from the Senator from Indiana with regard to that issue. I absolutely agree with everything you said.

We all know the important role that newspapers and the press have played in the development of our Nation and our democracy.

It is not going to solve the entire problem, but it will certainly save American lives.

We need embarked security teams, armed escort security teams.

I believe in deterrence. I am a firm believer in making a hard target.

Do you see that role as protective in nature, or is it more reactionary?

The Coast Guard has deployed at least one law enforcement detachment to the U.S. task force currently patrolling off of the Horn of Africa.

I think we all agree that the absence of stable government in Somalia remains the single greatest challenge to regional security.