While I believe the return of the Egyptian Ambassador to Israel would definitely contribute to sustaining the peace between Egypt and Israel, I don't think it is a necessity.

As I understand it, Chris Dell is your deputy on that team, who is a pretty high-ranking official in the State Department.

It is essential that we encourage President Morsi to send the Ambassador back to Israel to ensure a direct line for dialogue exists between the two countries.

The partnership between the Egyptian and Israeli military and foreign ministries... shows a continuing commitment towards sustaining the peace between Egypt and Israel.

I fear that if they continue to use negotiations to delay that we will be at a point where they have nuclear weapons capability and then it's too late.

The provisions have been very helpful in cutting off funds to those, our enemy, when contractors are contracting to those that we don't want taxpayers' dollars to go to.

Senator Blumenthal and I are working on an effort to extend those provisions beyond Afghanistan to other combatant commands.

Insanity is the definition of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

I dare say that we can't think of another country that is doing more damage in terms of terrorism around the world and hurting our interests and those of our allies.

In my view, China could end some of the deeply troubling and bellicose behavior that we are seeing from the leader of North Korea.

I really appreciate it.

I had an opportunity to meet with Admiral Ferguson yesterday.

Will there be impacts on individual farm bill conservation programs under the sequestration, and is there enough funding to pay out our existing obligations under the contracts that are in force right now?

I am very excited to be representing the New Hampshire perspective on this Committee for the first time in 70 years.

I was particularly excited to visit recently to see the number of jobs.

Are we losing ground by not moving forward with the farm bill?

Thank you. As I know you're well aware, sequestration went into effect about 6 weeks ago on March 1st.

As part of the Affordable Care Act, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who was very familiar with your work, as well, and I joined together to put in some of the readmissions language with the penalties and try to have a transitional care manager…