Mr. President, I want to speak about this nomination from the standpoint of our State, our State of Florida, because we are famous for sugar-white beaches, fertile fishing grounds, and unique environmental treasures, such as the Florida…

Security is a Federal responsibility and we need to be able to lean on TSA as a real partner.

Mr. President, we are moving forward now on the consideration of Congressman Mick Mulvaney, the President's nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, which is an enormous responsibility and which often directs the traffic of…

I want to offer my condolences to you on the attack at your airport.

I want to make sure the program is around for my kids.

Because if you had approached this as candidate Trump had, saying he was going to protect Medicare and Social Security and not have any cuts, your answers would be different, and they would be clear.

As the Administrator of CMS, my job would be to carry out whatever Congress decides is the best course of action for the Medicare program.

I think it is important that we look for ways of making sure that the program is sustainable for the future.

We appreciate that Senator Gardner was able to spend the day with us and actually listen in to our discussions.

There are 56,000 structurally deficient bridges in this country.

Now, for example, you need a tunnel. There is a chokepoint.