So if they are spending $120 billion per year, can you break that out for me in terms of personnel versus procurement, weapons systems, ships?

I look at China really as a 1.2 billion person opportunity for the United States.

I appreciate the fact the administration is highlighting that. I think information, sunlight is probably the best cure there.

America must and will keep its word to the men and women who have given us so much.

In 1998, Sylvia's last year in the White House and the first year at OMB, the Federal budget had a $69.3 billion surplus, the first surplus in a generation. Sylvia has been out of government for the last 12 years. But I am confident she…

Madam President, I rise to urge the Senate to confirm the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget. I do so with great pride because Sylvia Burwell is from my home State of West Virginia. I…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 5 minutes. At that time, I wish to be able to turn it over to the Senator from Iowa. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Brent Franklin Nelsen, of South Carolina, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for a term expiring January 31, 2016, vice Gay Hart Gaines, term expired.

One thing I know is true about President Bush, and I hope my successor will say about me, is that we love this country and we do our best.

You have been tested, West.

Even though comprehensive immigration reform has taken a little longer than any of us expected, I am hopeful that this year... we bring it home for our families and our economy and our security and for this incredible country that we love.

Howard A. Shelanski, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, vice Cass R. Sunstein, resigned.

Nanci E. Langley, of Hawaii, to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission for a term expiring November 22, 2018. (Reappointment)

America needs towns like West.

God is bigger than all of this.

We may not all live here in Texas, but we're neighbors too.

Mr. President, this week Senator Durbin and I are introducing the Working Families Tax Relief Act with a majority of my Democratic colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee. For a number of years, one area of bipartisan agreement in…

Mr. President, I thank Senator Enzi, the senior Senator from Wyoming, for his good work on this legislation and for his always courteous demeanor. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 8 minutes…