World War II was easy. My pack was about 20 pounds.

If this matter is service-connected, I can assure you we're morally bound to do something about it.

I can assure you that we will discuss this matter with DOD to see if they cannot increase funding.

I thank you very much, Mr. Davis, for your testimony, and we will most certainly look into the Lautenberg-Rubio bill.

You've brought up a matter that's very personal to me because during the war I got about 30 transfusions. I just must have been lucky.

I can assure you that we are doing our very best to avoid sequestration, because if that ever happens then this hearing is for naught.

Can that be traced to the load they have to carry?

I'm certain you're aware that this subcommittee is deeply concerned about the rising rate of suicides. We will make certain that these funds are used for research and prevention.

Mr. President, above my desk in Washington is a copy of the labor contract that was signed by my grandfather, Asakichi Inouye, in July 1899. In the agreement, my grandfather would be paid $15 a month to work at the McBryde Sugar Company on…

I can assure you that we'll continue funding this.

The challenge is not employment, the challenge is the number of what is a green job and what is not.

There is a difference between trying to just employ people and trying to target for an industry that may or may not be there actually for employment.

But it also is a benefit to us in that it keeps our interest rates low because people do not invest in their sovereign debt, did invest in ours.

Increased government borrowing generally draws money away from or crowds out private investment and productive capital, leading to a smaller stock of capital and lower output in the long run that would otherwise be the case.

My concern, my charge when I took this job was to make sure that job training was aligned to the needs of employers.

It is only a political debate because it is designated for just green jobs, and that is the challenge of it.

I have a great deal of concern about the approach that Europe has taken on a cap-and-trade system.

The EU law is no more an intrusion into U.S. sovereignty than America's own aviation laws intrude into the sovereignty of other nations.