I cannot emphasize enough the importance of agriculture. As you start looking at what we are going to do in the place of TPP and how you are going to approach NAFTA, I hope you will keep that issue as a very, very high priority.

I cannot emphasize enough, representing a State where agriculture is our number-one industry, that agricultural trade must be at or near the top of your trade agenda.

Senators Wicker and Booker formed a team to reauthorize rail safety programs.

The Commerce Committee's work accounted for almost half of the 500 or so pages in that final bill.

Senator Fischer was key to the reforms in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

These transportation safety issues have been and will continue to be a major focus of this committee.

Helping our companies expand their ability to compete and tap into foreign markets, as I said earlier, is critical.

I think we should explore all of that because more capability against the threats we face is what is needed in the Pacific Command.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Remembering Jack Robinson

Would you agree that this UON should be updated to reflect these changing conditions?

The average American may be surprised to know that, in 1991's Operation Desert Storm, 60 percent of all deployed troops and 25 percent of all cargo airlift went by commercial carriers, not military airlift.

Is the decision to not fulfill the UON a fiscal one?

Our ability to project military power is increasingly tied to our commercial air segment, blurring the lines between military and nonmilitary organizations required for national defense.

The Department of Homeland Security, which is charged with protecting critical infrastructure, defines it as the assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or…

I believe the deterrence value of long-range strike to hold targets at risk, targets that are quickly becoming harder and harder to access.

It is clear the world is not any safer now than it was in 2014.

Cyber capabilities are critical when it comes to your operations as well.

One recommendation was that the Secretary of Defense direct you to conduct an annual assessment of the cyber resilience of the U.S. nuclear deterrent.