What benefits do you believe should consumers expect to derive from this merger?

Are you confident that you have the systems in place to prevent the cyber aspects of the aircraft from being compromised and confident that at this point they are not?

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I be allocated 8 minutes and that the remaining Democratic time be under the control of the Senator from Connecticut, Mr. Murphy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about an issue I deeply care about, and that issue is the affordability and ability of students across America to get a college degree. Mr. Speaker, as we face this impending student interest loan cliff on…

Mr. President, I rise to add my support to S. 744, the comprehensive immigration bill we have been debating over the past week. I first wish to thank the eight Senators who came together to draft this bipartisan bill. They have done an…

A lot of people have concerns about what, if any, limiting principles there are that would prevent the government from ultimately storing all information about all Americans.

the more you aggregate large quantities of metadata, potentially on every single American citizen, and you give someone within the executive branch of government the power to search all of that, you do give them a pretty broad view into…

I have offered an amendment over the years to try to limit the metadata collection in terms of specific suspicion.

Our standard is on the collection of the records.

We have a responsibility to the taxpayers in achieving that goal to make sure we do not waste their money.

This committee has been handed the baton on one of the last legs of the race.

I do have some sympathy for your image of creating a program that is too big to fail...

America wants to have air superiority--period--over any possible enemy.

We are making sacrifices in the name of deficit reduction that relate to the number of troops.

I talked to some of the people who were involved----

I did not want the acquisition process to be separate from that conversation.

I believe myself that we should be on the cutting edge of technology.

Unfortunately, at the onset of the program back in the 1990s was what happens frequently, and that is that everyone got together in the Department and basically deceived themselves about how hard the job was going to be and how expensive…