America owes it to these veterans and to their families that were affected by contaminated water.

I want to commend Senator Pryor on the consideration or alternative certification consideration for veterans' skills.

Hopefully, we will have a bunch of people that are involved in the process that have had problems.

I think it is important to include some our veterans in there.

It is sort of novel to apply the same thing to everybody, is it not?

Why would you exclude gainful employment from the evaluation of not-for-profit institutions which is what the President did?

The President's proposal calls upon the Department of Veterans Affairs to administer a Veterans Job Corps...

I have got community colleges in North Carolina that are visibly some of the best in the country. They have a graduation rate, after 6 years, of 28 percent.

I have attempted to get details as to how the Veterans Job Corps is going to be implemented and administered.

Well, do note that there is concern within the education community that they have yet to have the opportunity to be exposed to the webinar.

I believe this legislation provides reasonable and necessary changes to USERRA.

It is only fair that we expand this definition to protect our returning veterans while seeking medical treatment for injuries obtained in the line of duty.

We should always strive to prevent the award of contracts to vendors who have engaged in misconduct by failing to honor their legal obligations.

I especially want to thank my co-chair of the Reserve Caucus, Senator Saxby Chambliss, for his support of the Service Member Employment Protection Act.

I have been very impressed with President Obama's nominees to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

I will be asking about used nuclear fuel, nuclear waste; what are we going to do about it.

Do you agree that we should move ahead on parallel tracks?

I have never seen anything in my public life, in and out of government over the last 40 years, as the dispute that has occurred among very well qualified members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.