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Mark Pryor is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure during his tenure. Pryor was known for his moderate stance and worked across party lines on various legislative initiatives. He was re-elected in 2008 but lost his bid for a third term in 2014, marking the end of his Senate career.
I understand we are able to dispose of this amendment with a voice vote, so I ask unanimous consent that the 60- affirmative-vote threshold be waived on the Pryor amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it…
this is amendment No. 1298. It is the Pryor-Johanns amendment. I think the good news here is we have agreed to a voice vote. But basically what this amendment does is it requires the Department of Homeland Security, as they are doing their…
I understand I am not supposed to call up my amendment. But I would like to discuss amendment No. 1298. If it were appropriate, I would ask to make it pending. But, again, I understand we are not quite ready for that. I am offering this…
Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thank you for all the panelists who are here today, and, Madam Chairman, thank you for your leadership on this.
ROA and REA thank the Committee for including Senator Pryor's bill S. 629, 'Honor America's Guard-Reserve Retirees Act of 2013,' to be included in this hearing.
Unfortunately, unemployment continues to run about 10 percent higher for younger Guard and Reserve members than for non-affiliated veterans.
Years ago, when I was Attorney General, we dealt a lot with this, just on your home telephone and cramming on bills.
Thank you very, very much for your participation today, and your preparation.
I think bringing us together--I think this committee could help, I think the FCC could help--but, to sort of bring us together to start solving, engineer-to-engineer, some of these basic problems so we can make sharing work.
We've been joined by Senator Thune, who's the Ranking Member of the full Committee.
And let me just follow up on that, if I could. And that is, are there ways that we could offload the need for spectrum with some of our wireless devices?
Members of the Senate often come to the floor and talk about our men and women in uniform and their incredible bravery and the sacrifice they make for our country, and that is true. We certainly honor them and appreciate them for all they…
The testimony presented during these hearings was very helpful and that constant flow of information back and forth has been very good...
As I mentioned earlier, this is the final budget hearing, and I appreciate the work that everyone at USDA and FDA...
I know what you've gone through with sequestration so far and my guess is you've hit a lot of low-hanging fruit.
What caused the change, three things. One, simply the tough budget environment that we all find ourselves in.
The subcommittee's next markup--meeting will be a markup of the fiscal year 2014 bill and that date has not yet been determined.
To me, what I'm seeing in the administration's proposal, it kind of falls into the category of those who need it the most can afford it the least.
What Senator Carper is doing and Senator Coburn is doing is oversight, which is really the role of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House.
I will put an opening statement in the record but I just want to say thank you for doing this and thank all of you for your leadership on this.
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