Give us some idea how often these reports to police and to the NRC come in for devices that are missing or are believed to be stolen?

Some other State has faced this challenge, and they have figured it out, and they are the gold standard.

If we are to protect against the next Oklahoma City bombing, the next 9/11, or the next Boston Marathon bombing, we need to stay several steps ahead of the terrorists.

We have to do better. We have to do better than this.

I would assume that for Category I devices that the level of risk would be higher.

There really is no excuse for the kind of vulnerabilities identified by the Government Accountability Office.

I hope and pray that the subject of today's hearing is something that will just always be the subject for a hearing or for speculation.

And is that for Category I devices?

I am Tom Carper and I approve this message.

As I have stated before, our country needs a comprehensive, long-term budget plan that really does three things.

Our Nation's fiscal crisis may have receded from the headlines in recent months, but, in fact, we are still dealing with the same challenges we faced for years now.

I want us to go back in time a couple of years, I think, to 2012.

I think we are going to wrap it up here. I think we are just about to start some votes over in the Senate.

I commend that announcement.

Could we not just say, if you want to have somebody who is really experienced out in the field, he would make a good instructor, in order to induce him or her to come and be an instructor, pay them a stipend.

The purpose, as you know, of this hearing is to examine the merits of S. 1691, the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act.

The Tester-McCain bill we are examining today will save, we hope--taxpayers money, hopefully a good deal of it.

What concerns have been raised about--well, let us just go back.

What I have come to understand is that what happens along our borders is only a symptom of the problem.

while Senator McConnell is still here in the Senate Chamber, I wish to follow up on his comments about the loss of Christopher Stout. My wife and I have a son of our own named Christopher. He is roughly 10 years younger than Christopher…

I applaud the EPA's new Clean Power Plan to cut carbon emissions from the nation's existing power plants by 30 percent by 2030.

But, we should not and we cannot stop here.

It is critically important that we strike the right balance.

We want to take a look at the current state of port security in these United States of America.

Let us just see if there is any consensus on the metrics that we are using, how do we measure success.