This story underscores what this hearing is about: in a globalized economy Madam Chairman if we don't create the competitive conditions to keep manufacturing like this in the United States, well capitalized foreign entities that see great…

I think I read it right in your testimony. In 2007, Congress mandated that FAA develop the rules and regulations for foreign repair stations, and they still haven't done it.

It's costing American jobs. So what we would ask is, again, if you can pressure DHS and just say, 'Get the rule done.'

Well, thank you, Madam Chair.

Shock, disbelief, dismay, and distrust--stages of grief? No. These are the adjectives that sum up the reaction to the news that Hawker Beechcraft has agreed to sell itself to a Chinese manufacturer for $1.8 billion.

It's very important. And representing a state that's the home to Delta, the busiest airport in the world, Gulfstream and Lockheed Martin, there is no more critical issue in my state than aerospace.

you understand how government has a role in making sure we remain competitive.

I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a letter from the Members of the House of Representatives--over 100 of them--to the President and Secretary of State Clinton regarding the U.N. arms agreement. There being no objection…

I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa is recognized. Affordable Care Act

I come today to share with the Senate a letter which I have written to Ambassador Susan Rice, the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations. It is a letter I have written over a grave concern I have over actions that…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. United Nations

if the distinguished whip will remain on the floor for a second, as I was passing through listening to his speech, I wanted to add some meat on the bones of this business of passthrough income and the 940,000 American small businesses that…