the Aviation Restructuring Initiative (ARI) was developed to economize the force while maintaining capability and utility

Thank you. Thank you all very, very much for your service and for being so forthcoming today.

I very much appreciate these answers. I recognize that my question is a very complex and broad one.

I disagree with the FTC's proposed final orders against GM, Jim Koons, and Lithium Motors for their deceptive advertising actions.

It is very important that we try to prevent that money getting in the wrong hands of people who are going to do a lot worse.

I always teach FBI agents to follow the money, and have for 4 decades.

But we also need swifter enforcement, and severe and appropriate punishment, to effectively deter bad actors.

I want to thank again the Chairman of this Subcommittee, Senator Moran. And I also want to thank the Chairman of our Committee, Senator Thune.

I think we can all agree the best use of the FTC's resources is to pursue conduct and practices that cost Americans billions of dollars without any benefits.

The type of scheme is as endless as the human imagination and often as frustrating as a Whack-A-Mole game.

Scams are a real hardship for individuals, but they're also a scourge on our economy, unfairly victimizing consumers.

Thank you. A lot of consumers probably have no idea that new car dealers are prohibited from selling vehicles with open recalls, but used car dealers are free to do so, even though the defects can be deadly, and the recalls can be very…

But given the legal ability to do so, will you commit to holding the aiders and abettors accountable to the maximum degree you can?

I'm hoping that you will commit that the FTC will continue to pursue these cases by holding both individuals and companies that may have aided and abetted them accountable no matter how insulated or big they may be.

That purpose is not generic or ephemeral. It is urgent and important.

There is an elephant in the room with us today.

But some more than others.

the remarkable power imposed by OSHA was a $5,550 fine.

I feel that cameras in the courtroom, including in the U.S. Supreme Court, would be a very good thing.

I have long been an advocate of commonsense, sensible measures to combat gun violence, going back to my earliest days as State Attorney General.

I have never heard any United States Senator quote the Oxford dictionary for the meaning of a term. Never. Not once.

The Second Amendment is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever for any purpose.

And during the campaign, a completely different Federal judge, born in this country, he said could not rule fairly on his case because the judge was 'a Mexican.'

it will be probably one of the most consequential and profoundly important decisions that I make as a United States Senator

The Second Amendment does not provide the right to carry a concealed firearm.