I think that one of the keys to successfully completing NextGen is to have predictability in the funding stream.

Mr. Whitaker, tell us about the progress that you can make with the extra funding that the administration has requested.

Madam Chairman, realistically, what year are we going to have NextGen ready to go, so that is how we are operating our flights?

Well, are you saying 20 years from now? It was a twenty-year endeavor, but it started about ten years ago.

So, the first funding was in 2009. We have been talking about this at least for a decade.

Mr. President, I inform the Senate that the three judges from Florida we are about to vote on have the support of Senator Rubio and I. It is as a result of a bipartisan process. It is actually a nonpartisan process as to how we select our…

Mr. President, just to remind the Senate, this judge and the next one--as was the previous one--were done by the Judicial Nominating Commission process that Senator Rubio and I use in order to take any kind of politics out of the selection…

Madam President, I find there are a number of things I agree with the Senator from Arizona on. One of the things I agree with the senior Senator from Arizona on is that Maliki needs to go. Otherwise, I think Iraq is going to blow apart…

Opening Statement of Senator Bill Nelson, Chairman

About a quarter of married couples and about half of single people depend on Social Security for at least--and this is astounding--at least 90 percent of their retirement income.

I want to make sure that other communities like ours at least get a fighting chance.