"you need to have boats in for repair availabilities that take them out of the circulation."
"that would be a significant reduction from the requirement that is necessary in order to have that survivable sea leg capability."
"I have opposed sequestration. We will hope that we can come back and do something about that."
"I really hope that we can find a way to reconsider this decision until we have platforms in place that really will prevent the gap."
"Fort Huachuca is a wonderful place. I don't know if you have visited it, but if you haven't it is a fantastic facility."
"People who are minimum-wage workers are choosing between a gallon of milk and a gallon of gas."
"the notion that this is, you know, somehow going to obstruct its recovery, just events in just the last few days in a state that is poised to move forward really kind of rebuts that."
"The better way to do it is to raise people's income, and as you point out, the savings that we would garner from raising the minimum wage far surpasses anything that folks were trying to do with the f..."
"Katherine Hackett... is one of the victims of the non-action on the unemployment extension."
"If the sequester levels go into effect in 2016 and years beyond, I mean, really it is not just aircraft carriers that are going to be impacted."
"I think, you know, my friend Mr. McIntyre raised the issue of the ORP [Ohio Replacement Program] funding..."
"it is just not right that we are trying to balance our budgets, our Nation's budgets on the backs of our men and women in uniform and their families."