The problem is that our immunization rates are down. For the 2013 year to the 2014 school year, the percentage of youngsters that have received the necessary vaccinations is now below 90. That's not good.

By 2019, interest on the debt will exceed the entire defense budget.

The Defense Department has to tell us what they are going to spend the money on and how much it is.

We do have a problem with defense spending. It is causing me great concern as a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Budget for a couple of years.

We don't have enough money to run this government, and the deficits will continue to rise.

I particularly want to thank our chairman, Senator Alexander, for holding this hearing at such an important time.

I just wanted to thank all of our witnesses today for being here and for all the work you're doing to help keep people safe from vaccine-preventable diseases.

I strongly recommend that, and I thank you for your leadership.

Well, we feel the same way and, particularly, on the issues related to outreach and education.

Thank you both for being here today with us and providing us insight from 1986 in how you brought together what at times seemed to be impossible.

Tax loopholes are ways for politicians to spend money without having to go through the appropriations process.

The good news is that Senator Hatch... has taken a fairly inventive and creative approach to making sure that we find some common ground.

I think sustaining that rules-based international order is something that has to be at the heart of any strategic framework we develop.

It would also be very damaging in terms of civil-military relations.

That is not a big enough national security policy for a nation as great as the United States.

I think the stakes are very high.

I have to say that I tend to agree with your assessment, Ms. Franks, and that is not just chauvinism for Arkansas.

80 percent of Montana's wheat is exported. Nearly a billion dollars in 2013, and primarily through the West Coast ports.