we did not give them any path for success going forward...

I hope that this is something we can work together across party lines on because it will help make sure that the 21st Century is an American century when it comes to American jobs.

Isn't it those individuals who get impacted the most by our failure to take on this Tax Code issue?

Is Iran continuing to provide arms to Shiite militias in Iraq? To Houthi rebels in Yemen? To the Assad regime? To Hezbollah?

Secretary Kerry, what does that mean for Iranian restrictions and obligations after the ten year mark?

I fully agree with Senator Kaine, the importance of career and technical education in valuing what's being done, in terms of our manufacturing workforce and the incredible skill set they have.

I want to thank both of you for being here today and for the important and excellent work being done at Newport News and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, defending our Nation.

If you're not guaranteed physical access, yourself, to me that becomes insufficient, in terms of knowing exactly what has occurred at a facility.

Well, I think one of the warnings we're seeing is, they're already issuing statements that are contrary to what we would, I think, expect from this agreement, in terms of inspection, access.

Don't you think physical access is important?

Do you have a concern about the level of funding, given this fragmentation, and what we need to try to accomplish to make this work better at an international level?

If we could get everybody to buy into this kind of a Declaration of Excellence for what we want to accomplish in each of our agencies, I think it would--we would be more successful as a Federal Government.

this is one of the reasons that the shipyard was on the last BRAC [Base Realignment and Closure] closing list, and then was taken off.

we are more transparent, more resilient, and we have minimized systemic risk caused by speculative derivative activity, but I also understand that we have further to go.

I do think we need a different approach to address Iran's march towards a nuclear weapon.

We should not accept them either. Sadly, too often, we have accepted them. It is something that we should address.

One of the things, Dr. Taylor, I would disagree with you on, when you said we would never accept such high unemployment rates, I would say we have inner cities and communities where we do have those high unemployment rates.

There are some other potential threats, I think, to failure to act, one of which is Russia.