I look forward to your support of the 40-mile-fix legislation that I know the Chairman has visited with you about.

My understanding is the Air Force intends to increase the number of personnel involved in cybersecurity by 200 in fiscal year 2016 to counter a worldwide threat.

I consider it one of the greatest threats our country faces at the moment.

This week marks National Marriage Week. This is the time for Americans to recognize, to celebrate, to honor this time-honored institution and the critical importance of a man and a woman committing to each other and to the children of…

Today, February 12, 2015, I was not present for call votes number 77 and 78 due to attendance at the White House bill signing ceremony for the Clay Hunt SAV Act. If I had been in attendance, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall vote 77…

I want to comment on an interview that was published yesterday, quoting the President. In an interview published yesterday, the President spoke about a number of issues facing the United States. During that interview he had commentary on…

I particularly want to thank our chairman, Senator Alexander, for holding this hearing at such an important time.

I just wanted to thank all of our witnesses today for being here and for all the work you're doing to help keep people safe from vaccine-preventable diseases.

I strongly recommend that, and I thank you for your leadership.

The problem is that our immunization rates are down. For the 2013 year to the 2014 school year, the percentage of youngsters that have received the necessary vaccinations is now below 90. That's not good.

I am in the process of drafting a small lending regulatory relief package along with Sen. Tester that seeks to address some of these problems by clarifying that small lenders are very different than the regulations' intended targets.

I am interested in the people they lend money to.

I have had at least a dozen community bankers tell me they no longer make real estate loans to people who want to buy a home in a town of 2,000 people.

That is a pretty damning thing, in my view, for the future of rural America.

I want these hearings to make a difference, and in part we need to know what it is legislatively by law needs to be changed.

I am hoping that in this new Congress it has the opportunity to be heard in this Committee and action taken and be considered on the Senate floor.

Here in Washington, D.C., I believe we have too many people working on K Street looking out for Wall Street when we should be, instead, fighting for Main Street. It is our Main Street businesses, our small businesses, that are the heart…

The President's budget proposes to hike taxes by $2.1 trillion, seemingly not content with the $1.7 trillion in new taxes he and his allies in Congress have imposed over the past 6 years.