I rise today to address Senator Blunt's amendment to the surface transportation bill, which deals with the Obama Administration's recent proposal to require group and individual health insurance plans, with the exception of those issued to…

the political process is the best venue to pursue change.

Finally, would you agree with General Burgess, that right now our privately owned and operated cyber infrastructure, electric grid, banking system, transportation, even water supply and dams, are not adequately defended against such an…

the report you just cited said it--extensive, ongoing theft of intellectual property of American businesses, which in fact enables competition from abroad that actually costs us jobs here at home and diminishes our economic prosperity at…

Thank you very much, Director Clapper, for your statement of support for the legislation that Senators Collins, Rockefeller, Feinstein, and I introduced.

But they have done things--is it fair to say--that are inconsistent with just wanting to have peaceful nuclear energy capacity?

Is it also fair to say--and we have talked about the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism--that if they did have nuclear weapons capability, it might well embolden them in their use of terrorism against regional opponents and even the United…

Part of the problem here as we go forward, I think, is that so much of the vulnerability we have and even the attacks that are occurring now or the exploitation occurring are largely invisible to the public.

Egypt... will be a bellwether.

I came to the floor to introduce the Cyber Security Act of 2012. I am here with Senator Susan Collins. I thank her for all the work we have done together in what has been a wonderfully bipartisan, nonpartisan relationship to deal with a…

the role that America has played in providing stability and security in the Asia-Pacific region over the last 6 decades, as you've said, has been one of the preconditions of the enormous growth and prosperity in the region over that time.

We cannot afford to be dependent on foreign sources of fuel.

we strongly support the Lieberman-Collins-Rockefeller legislation, to get us in the proper place in dealing with the cyber threat

General Odierno, I understand that the Army hopes to facilitate reversibility by retaining more field-grade officers and mid-grade NCOs than it would otherwise need.

Never has there been in my almost 49-year career in intelligence a more complex and interdependent array of challenges than we face today.

With all respect, I consider this budget to represent unacceptable risk to our national strategy, and I hope members of this committee across party lines will work together to reduce that risk in a fiscally responsible way.

It actually took quite a while for us to build the political will both here and in Europe to get involved there.

It literally could happen any day. I am not predicting that it will.

I really applaud you for working with the Chief of Naval Operations on developing this concept.

While I am extremely confident in today's deterrent force, deferring modernization does increase risk across the nuclear enterprise.

I am concerned about the speed and depth of the reductions in ground force end strength envisioned in the fiscal year 2013 budget request.

The bottom line here is all of us working together to improve the protection of our Nation and the national security.

I hope we can find a way to make clear in Chicago that the door to NATO has not been closed to other nations, particularly I am thinking of Georgia, but there are others as well.

I welcome and endorse Air Force efforts to rapidly integrate the new Enhanced Land/Maritime Mode (ELMM) capability onto the JSTARS platform.

Is all this activity in the region by Iran evidence that they really have hegemonic ambitions?