Richard B. Nugent: “I have pledged not to change Social Security and Medicare benefits for those at or near retirement.”

Eliminating the ability to rapidly mobilize, train, and deploy... increases risk at an unacceptable rate.

They feel underappreciated. You know, they are not security guards; they are Capitol Police.

People forget that there is actually flesh and blood, parents and children, of those young men and women that are serving this country. They forget there are real people in those uniforms. And so that is why this is so important.

One of the recommendations I believe from that panel was also to invest more in medical countermeasures. Are we doing that? Are we investing more or are we staying status quo?