Seems to me that over time, we hear all of these time frames, in 6 months, in 1 year, and this has been going on multiple years, so forgive me for being a bit skeptical about some of this.

The president's selection of a child of Pamela to become ambassador to Japan in 2013 was a sign of Asia's growing significance in U.S. foreign policy.

If our goal is to convince the American public that we are going to achieve some kind of fiscal sanity...only on the discretionary side of the budget, the public is going to be terribly misled.

I speak for the first time from the Senate floor with a simple message: The world is growing ever more dangerous and our defense spending is wholly inadequate to confront the danger. To be exact: During the last four or five years the…

I am a big believer that the sequestration is a mindless approach, a lazy man's way to effect some kind of budgeting outcome.

The provision helps clarify that farmers are allowed to engage in normal agricultural practices that have added the benefit of providing habitat for ducks.

I am an engineer and a forester, and I disagree with you, and I can tell you that raising these standards will hurt this sector of the economy, which will, in essence, hurt the air quality overall.

Even though there are studies that show that poverty is related to indoor air pollution, which is correlated with asthma? You have totally disregarded the effect of employment, and jobs, and poverty on your cost analysis?

Do EPA's health effects include the negative health effects of employment cost?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I would request unanimous consent to submit a study from the Institute for Energy Research.

The ozone rule will drive up costs in the forestry and forest products industry, which will result in closed facilities, which will mean less jobs, less carbon sequestration, more poverty, and more asthma.

So if regulators should be able to see the emails within a broker-dealer, shouldn't we would be able to see all the emails in an Executive Branch agency?

What about in the case of the forest products industry, where you have a very green material that is good for the environment, yet these standards are going to hurt the industry, which will cost jobs, which will close down facilities…

Well, if we take cost out of the equation, and just use the science of air quality, these regulations will negatively impact air quality because they will remove operations that ultimately add to the cleanness of the air.

I would like to thank you for including the John Paul Hammerschmidt Federal Building and the U.S. Courthouse in the list of priorities in fiscal year 2017.

I think what makes me hopeful is that there has been bipartisan agreement on that.

I don't have a real good, warm and fuzzy feeling on this particular project.

Why did it take sequestration to force the Federal Government to practice efficiency?