Due to their interrelated nature, the responses to the pre-hearing questions submitted by Senator Burr to the Department of Veterans Affairs were merged in with the responses from the Department of Defense appearing earlier in this…

I thank my colleague. Madam Chairman, thank you for this hearing, and Mr. Gingrich, I share your cold. It is not fun.

This cannot be ignored.

Mr. President, I am pleased today to join my colleague from New Hampshire, Senator Shaheen, in introducing the Small Business Export Growth Act, which would help small businesses better navigate the complex process of promoting and selling…

the behavior was unacceptable for Secret Service personnel.

I hope that you will continue not only your no-holds-barred investigation and the disciplinary actions which are so clearly warranted in this case.

we are going to investigate it, and we are going to take the appropriate disciplinary action.

Any type of misconduct we take extremely seriously and we investigate it to the end limit.

I think it is so important to get to the bottom of this event, to get to the truth of it so that we can find out exactly what happened.

Sir, this was a question an awful lot of us have asked ourselves over the last month and a half.

I want to personally thank Secret Service Director Sullivan for his cooperation with our investigation and also to thank him because he has worked very hard and fast since he learned of the crisis to investigate it and try to restore the…

I would appreciate that.

the concern that we have expressed, Senator Collins quite explicitly, and what we are worried about is that an agent with the responsibility to protect the President and Vice President could be compromised.

Did any of those have characteristics similar to what happened in Cartagena, that they were women or prostitutes that they picked up.

Well, that is very important and very encouraging news because obviously you are conducting a formal Inspector General investigation.

There is no excuse for that type of behavior from both a conduct perspective and from a national security perspective.

Thank you for that answer. I hope you will take a fresh look at it, notwithstanding everything you have said...

Madam President, I wanted to speak about an amendment which I intend to offer once we do get on this Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act. This is an important amendment. I want to advise my colleagues and all who are…