We need a comprehensive bill that funds the entire government so that we are not again just sort of constantly seeing something else pop up that is not provided for.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

So again, if we are talking about adversaries that are not as limited as Libya was, I mean obviously losing payload is really actually going to handicap us more in terms of overcoming those.

I was just sort of wondering if you could talk a little bit about, you know, what will happen when those SSGNs go off line if we don't replace that payload capacity.

Today marks day 7 since the rollout of the health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. Listening to the hysterical rhetoric from the majority party in the House, you would think that America's basic freedoms and economy would be…

The worst-kept secret in Washington, DC, is there is a majority in this House to pass a clean CR. In fact, this morning, a list of 21 House Republican Members who said they would vote for a clean CR was published. It would end this idiotic…

Yesterday was opening day for the Affordable Care Act in the State of Connecticut. Despite the hysterical predictions on the other side, where you would have thought the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would be riding through the streets…

Yesterday, in Groton, Connecticut, which is a community right on Long Island Sound, The Day Newspaper of New London hosted a job fair for the surrounding area, which I had the opportunity to attend for about an hour or so. And the good…

You are really taking an oath to a system that is about protecting people's dignity and rights as American citizens.

Which is that, you know, you can have all the platitudes in the world about people's right to equality and votes and collective bargaining. But if you don't have a remedy, it really doesn't exist.

Thank you for your amazing service, for you belief in our system. Not just as a soldier, but also a citizen and as a worker.

it has been 9 months since Sandy Hook. There are too many mentally ill people getting too easy access to weapons, and it is time for this Congress to pass a background check bill, which would help, frankly, all installations in terms of…

Again, when we talk about the submarine gap, which you have done an outstanding job, I think it is important really also for the record to remember that it was this subcommittee that in the spring of 2007, actually led the way in terms of…

And hopefully the bipartisan budget negotiations that are going to start today are going to get us to a point where we can, again, avoid all the negative consequences that you have described here today.

Again, I think a U.N.-sponsored mechanism is something that is going to raise people's comfort level infinitely compared to use of military force.

I wrote the following letter to the Under Secretary of Defense a few days ago: Just this past Saturday, I attended a welcome home event for the 1109th TASMG, the Connecticut National Guard, who spent the last year in Afghanistan providing…

this is just another powerful argument for why we need to turn off sequester.

I, too, rise in support of the Student Loan Certainty Act and again want to emphasize the fact that, compared to the product that came out of this Chamber on May 23 that the majority passed on a partisan, party-line vote, on which the…

this being a self-inflicted wound to our military readiness, it is also completely unnecessary.

48 years ago today, Lyndon Johnson, in Independence, Missouri, signed into law the Medicare program in the presence of former President Harry S. Truman. It's important when you think about that event, which I would argue transformed our…

I couldn't agree with you more. We have an outstanding panel here today.

Today the subcommittee meets in open session to hear testimony on the acquisition and development challenges associated with the Littoral Combat Ship.

in my opinion, an impressive array of benefits for young Americans, 3 million who now have coverage because of the age 26 modification.

the fact of the matter is, is that very shorty we are going to see rate filings which are below the Congressional Budget Office projections from 2010...

the sky is not falling.