There has to be an understanding that we are in this to win.

I have been concerned with the Administration's long delay in filling the top position at TSA.

I was compelled, as many of my colleagues here were, to vote against the emergency supplemental when it left the Senate.

Thank you so much for your great service to our country and your willingness to take on these important positions of responsibility.

I think Members of Congress, irrespective of their political affiliation, have tremendous confidence in you.

What can you see yourself doing differently than your predecessors when it comes to successfully advocating for this capability?

I think it would be important in terms of reviewing the treaty, too, to determine whether or not whatever the prompt global strike would consist of would in fact fall under those caps and therefore impact the other considerations with…

I think that you would bring an important perspective to TSA when it comes to strengthening security for the traveling public.

One of the biggest challenges TSA faces is complacency from the general public and a lack of understanding when it comes to screening protocols.

Let me, if I might, explore this a little further with the Senator from New Hampshire and follow up with a question that the Senator from Texas asked. As I understand this then, the Cadillac tax provisions that were in the Senate bill--and…

Well, is it possible, I would ask both my colleagues, that the process the House is using--and by the way, this deeming the bill passed seems to be a very curious way of trying to pass legislation of this consequence, which literally…

Madam President, I ask my colleague, it seems to me, as he described this reconciliation trailer bill that the House will use, first, to try to fix elements of the Senate bill they do not like, and then that reconciliation bill would come…

we have to, I think, be very concerned about readiness, combat effectiveness, cohesion, recruitment, retention.

I say to the Senator from Utah that he has made, over the course of the last year, many compelling arguments about the substance of this legislation and just now summarized what some of those are. The reason the American people have…

I think they have figured it out, which is why the last survey I quoted was the CNN survey which said 48 percent of the people want us to start over and 25 percent want Congress to quit working on the issue altogether. That is literally…

That is what the author of reconciliation said a year ago about trying to do health care reform through this process that the majority has decided to use. There are lots of other examples of our colleagues in the Senate on the other side…

Well, I would say to my friend from Utah, it is interesting how the semantics and terminology changes in Washington depending upon what point you are trying to make. But many of our colleagues who have weighed in heavily against the use of…

I think it is an important one point. I hear articulated by our colleagues on the other side the whole process by which the House is acting on this legislation. I served for three terms in the House of Representatives. I still have…