Johnny Isakson

The revenue that comes to the United States of America and the income that helps us support this economy and pay for our budget... comes from revenues that come from imports into this country and products we export in this country.

I'm going to steal a great idea that you had in your presentation. You held up a nickel. I want to hold up a dollar, which is 20 times a nickel.

That expansion is necessary because in 2014, the ships that will come through the newly expanded Panama Canal will come to the East Coast of the United States, and without a deepening of the channel, many of those ships will not be able to…

Since 2000, there has been an issue with regard to the shortnose sturgeon, and NOAA has made a recommendation--very late in the game, I might add--that the solution to the shortnose sturgeon spawning at the new Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam…

The Savannah Harbor Expansion Project is critical to the economic growth and recovery of the Southeast.

The Department of Commerce must balance habitat protection with that of the economic development needs of this country.

The Corps and the agencies appear to be close to reaching an agreement on the project mitigation.

There is no question that the Senator is correct. We are predictably unpredictable here. We need to be predictably predictable when it comes to the efficiencies we can bring about and how we spend our money. We need to do what people do…

If confirmed, I look forward to working closely with you to address this issue because we cannot allow our veterans to wait for the benefits they have earned any longer.

It is broken when we have veterans waiting an average of 190 days for a claim to be adjudicated.

As you know, we discovered in Georgia that veterans were being overcharged on closing fees on VA refinances by some lenders.

Today, we will discuss the qualifications of the nominees to serve in two demanding roles at the Veterans Administration.

It is broken when we have nearly one million veterans currently caught in a backlog that continues to climb.

Arlington must become known as a place of comfort to families, efficiency of administration, and a model of customer service equal to that of VA's National Cemeteries.

Thank you very much and thanks to you both for your service.

That is totally unacceptable, and it has to change.

I will pledge to you any support that I can give to help you in accomplishing that. I think that is the number 1 task.

Without question, I believe that the VA disability claims system is broken.

I would like to be recognized as in morning business. I guess we are in morning business? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. That is correct. ____________________

I think Secretary Clinton has done an admirable job over the last month and the State Department should be commended.

If we're dissolving some of our emphasis in that country we're running the risk of protracting what's a terrible human situation in Libya.

What we do now and in the future in the Libyan conflict is going to send a lot of signals to that part of the world.

I think Africa is the continent of the 21st century for the United States of America.

Each of you has accepted a responsibility to go to a place few Americans will ever see, and many Americans have never even heard of.

President Kagame did to take that nation from genocide to democracy and stability.