Richard Blumenthal

Rounding down veterans' COLAs unfairly targets disabled veterans, their dependents and survivors to save the government money or offset the cost of other Federal programs.

Well, I want to thank you for your focus. As you know, this is a problem that has continued to----

The progress that you are making is the result of a different--reforms in the process----

We do not want to see it diminished. We see these delays in Hartford and we would like your help in solving them.

This program is so valuable, it ought to be a major increase and certainly not a reduction.

I want to express my appreciation on the Richard Staab v. McDonald case.

Thank you all for being here. I appreciate your excellent testimony today.

We want safety. Safety comes first.

Too many families have been devastated by this continuing scourge.

It's every parent's worst nightmare.

Cuts to transportation--like the TIGER program and Amtrak. Cuts to many other critical programs, like housing and the environment and education and our workforce--cuts that undermine our economy.

I want the record to reflect that Senator Rounds would not yield to me and that he took all my time.

I have to tell you, show me the money.

I want to express, first, my appreciation to your commitment to CBOCs in Connecticut and around the country.

I know everybody in this room feels that we have betrayed a trust here.

We are talking about real money here because the Department of Defense has already spent $4.3 billion.

In fact, during the campaign, President Trump promised to replace our, 'obsolete,' rails and tunnels...

I'm very skeptical, I have to say with all due respect, about the plan that has been advanced...

I will restate now my commitment to working across the aisle on this very important issue with my colleagues.

He called this assignment--I am quoting him--an extreme measure----

Continuous production was authorized for the Columbia-class common missile compartment, which allows the industrial base to continue manufacturing that component.

I hope that we can continue this conversation because it is critically important, and it is bipartisan.

I would just like to tell you that Ms. Stiller christened the USS Mississippi, one of the more recent Virginia attack submarines, in a dramatic show of force.

There is a very strong program of oversight and scrutiny in place to avoid any of the kinds of mishaps that have plagued other programs.

As the Navy's 2016 Force Structure Assessment (FSA) seeks to build a 355-ship Navy, is the Navy reexamining its helicopter force structure?