There are a lot of unfortunate bad apples. Let's not forget. Most charitable organizations are good, they do very good work that this country probably wouldn't exist without all the charitable foundations that we have in this country.

There's no question, there's some kind of a shell game, some kind of a scam going on here and I don't know who's getting the money. It's certainly not disabled vets who are getting the money.

I think we can bend the cost curve and create a lot of value for those beneficiaries.

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

Each of us in our States are very proud of the role that our men and women have played.

I hope as we move through the process, and we're trying to respect your stewardship of scarce dollars, that we see what that delay would do is really waste money.

Re-equipping the Guard is one of the biggest challenges facing the Department of Defense.

Maybe, say to Senator Coats, maybe we need a title 10 salute in the United States Senate, we might get things done a little more quickly, if we did.

I want to ask about the announcement in February about replacing C-5As with C-17s, which was part of the comprehensive reorganization of Air Force resources.

Reverse auction incentives could be established for varying technologies to drive industry competition and innovation.

If, on the other hand, the members of the U.S. Senate trouble themselves to study, or at least read, the text of the Law of the Sea Treaty, they would immediately see it for what it really is: a diplomatic dinosaur, a throwback to a bygone…

I think much of what we did was a punt to you guys.

Is there a pressure, though, to define what has occurred here in such a way that you may end up in the short term making a piece of legislation look good?

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Maryland, Ms. Mikulski, for her passion and understanding and intense work on this particular bill. Of course, she extends her passion and intense work on any bill she is involved in. I am so pleased…

Mr. President, I thank the chairman for his remarks and wish to be associated with them. It has been a very bipartisan process that has resulted in this bill coming to the floor, and I am hoping there will only be relevant amendments and…

Mr. President, I rise today to talk about the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act. I believe we are going to have a cloture vote on this bill tonight, and I am pleased that all early indications are it will pass tonight…

One of the concerns about Dodd-Frank, and maybe even more specifically this area of Dodd-Frank, as you know, and it has been one of my concerns, is the more you crank it down, the more the regulations become more and more onerous, the…

I think we all do agree that transparency obviously is critical to reducing the risk and creating the efficient markets.