We've had enough, and our dependence upon foreign oil has really got to stop, and we are not inclined to use our military trying to protect people who are trying to hurt us.

We ought not to abandon great improvements in order to seek for perfection, which might cost five or six times as much to build a plant.

I think that it is almost necessary to see a single proposal come forward combining energy and environment.

I worked closely with my compadre in the Texas Senate, Senator John Whitmire, who is a Democrat.

I agree we are not talking about the energy issue right here.

Well, we happen to have a proposal that might. Actually, they are going 200-plus on a proposal.

I am a conservative Republican. I started asking them where, you know, who are these guys that are out there?

Texas has a history of spending lots of money on building prisons.

The vast majority of them said, you know, they had some pretty good redeeming qualities. They just made some terrible mistakes.

Simply put, interoperability is the right people being able to communicate at the right time.

Your legislation would provide a long-overdue correction of an unfortunate situation that has had a negative impact on military families.