I remain committed to ensuring that the United States lives up to the promises we have made to our Nation's service men and women.

I continue to have concerns regarding the VA disability claims backlog, and I think the current situation is inexcusable.

Will you engage on this issue in the TPP negotiations? Because you said your number-two priority was to level the playing field.

When you start negotiating with people, you have the opportunity to correct some things that have been bad in terms of past practices.

Only when those answers to those questions take place, can you begin the process of restoring the confidence of the American people in the Internal Revenue Service.

First of all, I wish to thank the Senator from South Carolina for his leadership on this important issue, and I am proud to join the senior Senator from Georgia Saxby Chambliss and, in effect, join Sam Nunn, who is a former Senator from…

Thank you for your answer.

It seems to me, taking the Specialty Healthcare decision, if appropriate, and applying it to a retail establishment with a plethora of different departments within it, and saying each one of them can organize and bargain as a unit, is…

I have been a big advocate of raising the visibility of durable power of attorneys, living wills, end-of-life directives.

I think that makes an awful lot of difference in the politics.

I appreciate the opportunity to commend to the Foreign Relations Committee and the United States Senate, Carrie Hessler Radelet.

I trust and verify that Rose Gottemoeller is exactly the right person the United States of America needs at this time.