Bill Nelson

Singapore is a major trading partner. It will continue to play a major part in our engagement in efforts, particularly trade efforts, in Asia.

I have known Kirk for many years. He is from Miami. He is a University of Miami law graduate.

Our U.S. representative in this tiny, in effect, nation state is critical.

The Ambassador representing us in Singapore in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations is going to be very crucial.

We have a unique, very competent and very qualified candidate, nominee, to be the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.

I want to thank you for this committee's consideration and I look forward to casting my vote on the floor of the Senate when we confirm her.

It is a privilege for me to return to the committee that I spent six very happy years here.

They haven't been in Florida. And you're the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. You're supposed to be protecting consumers.

We got it all straightened out, but it took some haranguing to get it.

Why is a short sale being coded the same as a foreclosure?

I would appreciate it if you all would stop this nonsense and get it coded correctly so that our people are not being penalized.

If a person goes into foreclosure, someone--indeed, that will be noted and it will affect their credit, will it not?

General Phillips and General Barclay, one of the Rifleman radio's key performance parameters is Position Location Information (PLI), the ability to automatically transmit a soldier's position location to team and squad leaders.

What is the Army doing to address the shortcoming in reliability, operational effectiveness, and suitability?

What strategies are in place to help ensure that the Army manages the inherent risk in procuring additional radios that have not met reliability thresholds?

The Manpack radio has not yet demonstrated an Army-defined reliability requirement enabling it to have an 86 percent chance if completing a 72-hour mission without an essential function failure.

I urge the Army to use the retrograde opportunity to ensure that vehicle restraint systems are modernized to reduce the injuries encountered in future conflicts.

General Phillips and General Barclay, what are the Army's current plans to develop and incorporate a SAASM-based solution into future increments of the Rifleman radio?

General Phillips and General Barclay, the Army is in a similar situation with Rifleman radios in buying additional radios that have not come close to meeting reliability requirements.

General Phillips and General Barclay, how many Rifleman radios will be procured under this waiver?

Thank you, Chairman Nelson, for holding this hearing. This is such an important topic.

I also wanted to thank the advocates who have been here today.

It is really extraordinary when you look at the cost piled up in this huge line that Medicare and Medicaid will spend on this.

I think beg for a changed command structure, one that is a military command structure in an unfolding disaster

We clearly know and we have learned a lesson that we are in charge. We hold people accountable for cleanup.