Richard Blumenthal

What can--what would you recommend that we do on this Committee, and the U.S. Senate generally, to make sure that there is interoperability?

We have been assured repeatedly that both agencies are cooperating with each other, which somehow defies credibility

Security breaches have to be prevented and remedied, because this information is sensitive and personal.

These kinds of integrated, up-to-date electronic health care records are absolutely critical to ensure that health care providers have access to the health information they need.

Every time we have raised the issue, we have been assured that it has been solved, and then we come back and ask the same question.

What can be done to make sure that FirstNet is not hampered by a sluggish hiring process?

I'm concerned about that fact. In fact, according to the statute, all, 'public safety entities,' shall have access, but it's not clear what that term means, 'all public safety entities.'

It has been a tough hearing, but you have done a really good job at this hearing.

I think that is an excellent idea, and as usual, the Chairman's best decisions are made without my being in the room.

I think the Congress, and particularly this Committee, deserves an explanation, as Senator Sullivan said very correctly.

The Department of Justice declining to defend a statute of the United States is a decision of the highest and most profound consequence.

I cannot do it in 10 days, but I will try to get it by X, and I will call you back.

I appreciate that attention. It is well deserved.

The reform of the appeals process is certainly a high priority goal of the Veterans First legislation.

There is no reason, in my view, that any constitutional issue should be raised.

I suggest that he should so that we do not encounter the same situation again.

I thank you again for your service.

Families share in public service, as we all know.

I want to thank you for your service to our Nation, as well as your wife, Debbie, and your children, Katie and Colin.

Those points really should be bipartisan. They should attract support from both sides of the aisle. There is nothing Republican or Democratic about any of these points, is there?

I would like your commitment to work with me in developing a long-term plan to rebuild the Northeast Corridor beyond just those tunnels, especially the aging bridges and tracks that we have in Connecticut.

I know you're working closely with my colleague Senator Booker and others from New Jersey and New York on a plan for the Hudson River tunnels.

I fought hard to achieve--and I appreciate the cooperation of Chairman Thune and Ranking Member Nelson in helping advance that effort.

I would like to pursue with you the potential for amending the Consent Order or interpreting creatively and aggressively your existing authority and for increasing that authority if necessary because I think it is vital to public safety…

These products are the very same ammonium nitrate airbags that have sent shafts and shards of metal into people's faces.