It is, both your MILCON budget and then your O&M budget, as it is set up right now, is very important for the ability of our airmen and aircraft to deliver those missions.

The work you do to support them is incredibly appreciated, and, of course, tremendously important.

I would ask that you check and get back to me that you are, through your O&M account, maintaining those fuel lines, for both now and for the future.

Well, it is a good plan, and I commend you for it. And I want to work hard to help you achieve it on behalf of our airmen and the mission.

If we continue down this path of spending and borrowing recklessly, we will leave America weakened and diminished.

Simply put, these claims are detached from reality, and they undermine efforts to tackle our growing debt danger.

We need honest budgeting. We have got to have that, facts-based budgeting, not fantasy budgeting.

We have got to get off the road of spending and borrowing and get on the road to a lean and productive Government.

The President has yet to look the American people in the eye and explain the basic fact that we have run out of money.

I would like to speak this morning on an issue that I believe is of great importance to our economy and to our national security. In recent weeks, we have seen political turmoil in Libya and Egypt and Tunisia and throughout the Middle East…

I am pleased to be joined by my colleague, Senator Collins, as we introduce the REAP Reauthorization Act of 2011. Nearly one-third of America's public schools are in rural places, and 23 percent of our students attend these schools…

We need to get that creativity going in the private sector.

I think it's going to be absolutely key that we work together, particularly as we go into this next farm bill, on crop insurance.

using those mediators could really be helpful.

I'd strongly urge you to do that. And I think that you've shown a willingness to work with them that I greatly appreciate.

Well, two things. First off, you're absolutely right.

I have rarely seen a witness who is better prepared or does a better job of defending his position than you do, and I just want to thank you for the leadership you have provided.

So we are not the individual States of America. We are the United States of America, and if we are going to be strong, I do not think the best can be, it has to be in my State or I am not going to support its funding.