Mark Begich: “I do have to leave at 11:30 a.m. So we are going to submit some questions in writing also.”

It has been an honor to be here.

Just assuming the private sector is going to absorb all this is not realistic.

We have a responsibility to protect the most vulnerable among us.

I want to make sure my colleagues hear exactly what you are saying, so a couple years from now, we do not hear complaints that, geez, why did you not do it?