I do believe the people doing it thought that they were maintaining a short against high-yield credit that would benefit the company in a crisis.

I think this is a very important hearing because the issues that have been raised go right to the capability of large, complex international financial institutions to manage risk.

For many of us, this outsourcing just became a passion, and people stopped asking the most basic question: Is this serving the Nation well?

And the fact is that we're going to be cutting half of $1 trillion from the defense budget over the next 10 years.

If you're serious about taking this on, you got to put everything on the table.

I know we need every dollar it takes to be safe. But if we are going to cut back in healthcare and education to provide more money on the military side, isn't that going to have an impact on the men and women who volunteer to serve in our…

How is the Department ensuring that critical, Government-owned and -operated facilities in the Nation's organic industrial base, like Rock Island Arsenal, are properly and strategically modernized so that these facilities have the…

Especially looking at some of these young people that are coming through schools right now and stuff who have a lot of abilities and want to serve.

There's a law in Afghanistan. We just want them to adhere to their own law, that's all.

I just think this is one place where again, we've got to break down some of these barriers.

Mr. President, last night the Senate voted to end the Republican filibuster of this outstanding nominee. For the 28th time since President Obama was elected, the majority leader was forced to file cloture to get an up-or-down vote on one…

Thanks to @BarackObama rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline, China has become Canada's biggest oil consumer. China is laughing at us!

China's currency manipulation is one of our nation's greatest sovereign threats. The yuan has appreciated 40% against our dollar since 2005.

SCARY-$6T in debt and $1T annual budget deficits later, @BarackObama is asking for more time to fix the economy http://t.co/Wp4ozvQx

Once again, @Cher tweets nonsense about @MittRomney. She needs to stop tweeting &amp, start worrying about some of her many problems.

Good news--@MittRomney is now leading in North Carolina according to @ppppolls. The NC GOP is united after their (cont) http://t.co/O5YRxtOd

I think her primary issue is that she lost and she's angry about losing. And frankly, in my opinion, I saw her for, you know, barely a second. She didn't deserve to be in the top 15.

I think her primary issue was that she lost and she's angry about losing. Frankly, in my opinion, I saw her for barely a second. She didn't deserve to be in the top 15.