I will be the first to admit that, like most Americans, I am no technical expert in virtual currencies.

In adversity lies opportunity.

When I think about the new types of currencies, I wonder how they fit into the tax system here in our country.

I would like to say that number is going down, but, unfortunately, to my knowledge, it is not, at least not yet.

In anticipation of this hearing, a week or two ago I was trying to get my head around this subject.

Let me just follow that up, and you have partly answered this question, but I want to ask it anyway.

Every now and then I talk to constituents, and we talk about what we are doing to try to reduce the budget deficit.

But this country, like all countries, has an interest not only in protecting our financial system from money laundering and terrorist finance, but also protecting consumers from fraud, collecting taxes, protecting investors, ensuring…

I always like to say we do not have to make false choices, and say: We have to choose between a stronger economy and a clean environment.

Our government needs to pay attention to this technology and to understand and, where appropriate, address these implications.

Take a good look at your children because this is the last time you are going to see them until Christmas.

I think we can all agree on that. We need to do a better job on background checks and get the correct answer, fast answer, but the right answer.

I hope that we will move promptly to confirm you and then I hope we will move promptly to making sure you have the team around you that you need.

I believe we should carefully review this incident and see if there is anything more we can do to protect TSA employees.

Today we meet to consider the nomination of Jeh Johnson to serve as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

There is too much at stake for us not to work together to fix the Department of Homeland Security.

The American people are counting on us, but they are going to be counting on you, and there is simply too much at stake for us to fail.

People say to me, what is a high-risk list? It is high-risk ways of wasting money, our taxpayers' money.

We are going to work hard to make sure it gets better, and when they do a good job, to make sure they get some credit for that.

Let me just give a shout out to TSA. I know they take criticism from a lot of folks. It is a hard job.

I think that might be of great value to you and the folks you lead in our country.

my wife ran into one of our old colleagues the other day, a guy named Ted Kaufman. He was the interim Senator who succeeded Joe Biden and held down that slot for 2 years until Senator Chris Coons was elected on his own, not that long ago…

my thanks to the majority leader this morning. Before I say a few words about Rev. Gregory Knox Jones, I want to go back in time for a couple of minutes. I was talking to the pages out in the hall behind the leader about how when our…

Let us keep this in mind: a lot of people in this country, too many, hundreds of thousands of people, they call my office and they call all our offices, they have policies that are not worth the paper they are written on.

We fixed a problem that was created by the original George W. Bush proposal, which I supported.