The KC-X will be a game changer. Its value as a tanker will be tremendous.

The problem with the murder rate in Mexico... is the President is stepping up; he is taking on these cartels.

Wouldn't you agree that his life may be in danger and a lot of other people who are executing that, but they are attempting to do so and making some progress?

We have a constitutional right in America to keep and bear arms, and we are not changing our Constitution.

I believe that independent sovereign nations that were once part of the Soviet empire are independent sovereign nations.

Isn't one of the best ways we can help Mexico is to identify through intelligence, through task forces, and that sort of thing, and target these organizations that are collecting the money in the United States and prosecute them…

I'd like to see--in the very least--students and elderly folks have access to a safe transit option.

I think that is what Congress should look at, then I think you have to at least consider splitting them back out.

I look forward to working with the new Secretary of Transportation, Secretary LaHood, the Chairman and this Committee.

There were a lot of very, very difficult decisions that were made over the next few days that many people lost sleep over.

But that again presupposes that you at the State level are going to better be able to assess that national or international reinsurer's ability to pay off that risk than a Federal regulator, doesn't it?

It is critical that we maintain this important funding that has helped safely connect folks in isolated areas.

You cannot have economic development without a smart, effective transportation system.

It seems a little crazy that they had to go through this additional step to try to benefit from this program.

I think, at least in recent press reports, we are still waiting for the Treasury to give some guidance in this area.

the constitutional authority to deal with international trading partners in the E.U. or other parts of the world really lies with the Federal Government

I want to go back to where Senator Corker was heading in trying to understand--I think I have got the frame of the challenge between the State versus the Federal regulation framing.

I will be anxious to see it, but it would still seem to me that, at least in this area on reinsurance, because of the national and international nature of reinsurance, that a national standard amongst States.