John Boozman

We appreciate your preaching job for today, and we appreciate all of you for being here.

Very good. That is a great step in the right direction. That is encouraging.

We are currently moving ahead to implement a commercial scheduling solution called MASS, the Medical Appointment Scheduling System.

I was pleased that recently, I believe Dr. Shulkin said that we were going to be looking at commercial applications.

Can you talk a bit about the recent closing of two of these controlled crossing points and the impact that it has had for Georgia's territorial integrity?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We appreciate you and Senator Carper for holding such an important hearing.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 2:09 p.m., adjourned until Monday, February 13, 2017, at 12 noon.

So we are really kind of in a Catch-22 situation, as you mentioned.

Affordability has to be one of the primary factors when considering when you are funding a project in this country.

So it is very important that we all work as a partnership and make sure that we can deliver our foods and our fiber to the urban area.

As a member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, that is bothersome.

It seems awful long to me.

Any lag time--and, again, I do not mean to interrupt, but any lag time in that area, with the technology, we simply have to figure out with things like that how to have a more efficient process, or we waste a tremendous amount.

But I guess my point and your point--and I think it is a point that we need to emphasize--is that, you know, that is something that being more aggressive in that area, that is something that would save a lot of money.

So what does a 1 percent, half percent rise cost?

One final thing. Is there a risk of inflation rising past the 2 percent target set by the Federal Reserve?

Is it correct then to say that Congress' current approach to reducing the deficit--that is, only reducing discretionary spending--is sustainable in the long term?

In 2027, discretionary spending will be at the lowest level as a percentage of GDP that it has been since 1962.

Thank you for being here.

The Choice has really been very effective in Arkansas.

Under your leadership can we expect EPA to be more transparent, in other words, how the rules are being developed, the science behind them?

For the past 8 years, EPA has acted as a political arm of the Obama administration time and time again.

In recent years EPA has made it increasingly difficult for Arkansas to manage its delegated national pollutant discharge elimination system.

I have known and worked with Yleem for over 15 years and enthusiastically support her confirmation to this important position.

I ask that the Chair lay before the Senate the message from the House to accompany S. 546. The Presiding Officer laid before the Senate the following message from the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S…