David Perdue

It is about $10,000 a day. Is it not?

This is not how the people's business should be done.

Do you anticipate working with them?

The $272 million and the $413 million are hard skills.

But those cost savings should show up in whatever cost-benefit analysis finally is done.

I think we all agree that the overriding requirement here is to get our people trained to make them as safe as we possibly can.

How do that in L.A.?

I want to reach into a little bigger issue that affects this analysis.

I said it looks like a horse built by a committee, which is a camel.

You know, from a perspective of trying to evaluate these moving numbers...

the attempted construction of a Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FASTC) at Fort Pickett in Blackstone, Virginia, to conduct Diplomatic Security (DS) training is the perfect example of bureaucracy run amok.

I think Deputy Secretary Heather Higginbottom in March, I think, of last year in an email expressed annoyance with their contact with the Appropriations Committee.

I rise to speak about the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and related agencies appropriations bill. I am very encouraged that has finally come before the U.S. Senate. I also wish to remind my colleagues that the Senate…

They are overwhelmed. Basically the parallel would if the United States had accepted refugees, it would be the size of England.

I want to thank the majority leader for bringing the Defense appropriations bill to the floor for a vote and remind everyone that the Senate Appropriations Committee has put forward 12 appropriations bills that adhere to the Republican…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Appropriations

I rise today to talk about why I am here, and really why all of us are here. We are here to represent the people of our great States. We are here to do the people's business and to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. We just finished an…

I rise to speak today about President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. I have now cast multiple votes to proceed to an up-or-down vote on this nuclear deal. However, according to President Obama and his administration, Congress's review…

I personally have been very measured about this. I am glad to see us moving back to a nonpartisan position on this, because this is war.

I have never seen a more confused battlespace than Syria.

I rise tonight to speak about a very troubled time in my life and in this body. I didn't think this moment would arise in my tenure here in the U.S. Senate, but tonight I am very troubled about being a Member of this body. Just a few short…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 10 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Economic Growth

I rise today to speak about seizing the opportunity to drive real economic growth right now. But first, I wish to give a little context by referencing our great Nation's desperate fiscal condition. Decades of overspending by both parties…

I rise today to talk about a very important topic for our country, the future of our kids, and the future of our kids' kids. This morning I was in a Foreign Relations hearing about Iran. It is pretty obvious that the administration has…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Nuclear Agreement with Iran