There is some outstanding legislation which is the Service Members Justice Act, which has been introduced by Senator Boxer, joined by Senator Grassley.

I wish to honor and thank Janet Burrell for her 37 years of talented and dedicated public service upon her retirement from the Senate. Her career in the Senate spans an impressive array of issues and responsibilities--all of which she met…

Just do not give up. If you know you are right, you think you are right.

I think the Congress is an enabler.

The opportunities are enormous. The need to get information from one place to another is only going to grow.

TSA faces serious challenges that demand strong, permanent, Senate-confirmed leadership.

The role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

I find them to be more often than not constructive and trying to be helpful to enable the Postal Service to survive and thrive.

The most important element of any organization I have ever been a part of or seen is leadership.

I think risk-based security is a good procedure.

If you have great leadership, you have a fighting chance to be successful. If you do not, you are probably doomed.

What you cannot measure you cannot manage.

I think he is an excellent choice, and we will have a hearing, and we are doing our vetting for him right now.

One of the things is that, as hard as they work, they never get thanked.

$125 billion, according to GAO last year, was the amount of our improper payments, mistaken payments, accounting errors, in some cases fraud.

I take second place to no one with an appreciation for the important role that Inspectors General play in our government.

one death is too many, especially if it is a death caused by a mistake or inappropriate attention or care.

I am troubled by the fact that there has not been a Senate-confirmed IG at Interior for over 5 years

When I was Governor, I was nominated by President Clinton to be on the Amtrak Board of Directors, and I had to go through a vetting process.

The vetting process can just take forever. We do not treat people very well through that process sometimes, and we have to do better.

There is no way I am going to finish doing this. This is just way too much.

we need to redouble our efforts.

we think we have too many Senate-confirmed positions in the government

There are too many vacancies for too long a period of time for Inspectors General, do something about it.