We must ensure that those workers have a meaningful chance at the jobs that are available in these industries.

we have a responsibility to ensure that our nation's immigration laws meet the needs of our country's workers and employers.

Your legislation simply authorizes them to be honored as 'veterans of the Armed Forces' but prohibits the award of any new benefit.

I would like to know a name of which person in the VA was indifferent because I think to paint with a broad brush the number of people at VA that are out there doing a good job.

I wish the distinguished Whip would have waited for answers today, and I do bristle a bit at the idea of indifference.

The goal of many is to at least get to $4 trillion reduction in 10 years.

What I see as holding us back right now is the inconsistency that we have seen in tax policy.

There is a sense of urgency--Senator Coats and I were together last night at a meeting--a sense of urgency that we have not had for awhile.

We have made some progress, as we all know, with, first of all, the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission.

I see this as a time of great opportunity.

It appears as though all of our witnesses agree that sequestration is not the best solution right now.

We should be doing something to keep Social Security solvent.

I think things have greatly improved in the last year in terms of getting some of the mid-sized bills through the Senate.

We simply cannot afford to have a repeat of what happened last December with the brinkmanship.

We are going through a process here where we are addressing a problem that is increasingly recognized as a problem for our country.

As the gentleman knows, we have been looking at that.

We have a moral and economic obligation to ensure that all qualified students who want to attend college can afford to go.

While my Republican colleagues and I continue to support the basic principles of competition and transparency to help encourage lower costs in higher education, we remain concerned that such policies could lead to federal price controls…