The President's 2016 budget and out-year spending profile represents a good faith effort, given the budget constraints, to modernize all three legs of the nuclear triad.

You are asking this economy to sustain tremendous costs and you don't know whether or not the soil worldwide is more or less moist?

I think Secretary Hagel deserves credit for insisting that we make an honest and very serious review.

We have had dramatic reduction in the number [of hurricanes]. We have gone a decade without a Class III or above hurricane.

I would suggest that when we go to our States, the group we have most complaints about from our constituency, highway people, whether it is our farmers, our energy people, is the Environmental Protection Agency. It is an extraordinary…

It is just too many people. You have asked for too many processes and the person sitting here is not an investigator.

I am concerned about the situation of how you process the applications.

Congress and the American people need to know the truth and to understand what our laws say, how they are being carried out, why it is failing, and how it can be fixed.

This is not going to work. You know it and I know it.

What I want the American people to know is the burden placed on you is such that you will not be able to fulfill the basic requirements that we expect to be fulfilled when a person applies to come to the United States.

That is my understanding. There would not be a plan to do person-to-person interviews.

We, in Congress, and policymakers in Washington, need to understand the reality of the--a nuclear-armed submarine.

One of the strategies that China has used has been to create a zone outside the Nation to make it difficult for our ships to inhabit.

I told my colleagues who offered the Gang of 8 bill I would vote for their talking points.

Experts have told me on that, a process that does not have the person-to-person interview is really a dangerous process and creates a lot of different dangers.

I have just got to tell you, the President made a big mistake here.

The requirement in the Secretary's memo was that they were present in the United States prior to I believe 1/1/2010.

For the most part, you are going to get an envelope with papers and you will run a background check that may pick up criminal activity.

This will make us less safe.

This is an important issue that Senator Lee has spent a good deal of time researching and it relates to the promise the President made that nobody would get citizenship under this program, and it appears that they will.

How do you evaluate that? You do not see a person sitting across from you and you cannot ask questions.

It is January 2015, past. We are talking about a number of years ago.

DUI counts as being out.

This individual was approved for legal status in the United States, even though he may have had gang affiliation, and now has murdered.

It is absolutely clear that a law officer can detain somebody and turn them over to the Federal Government if they have entered this country unlawfully.