What would be most helpful is what the Office of the Secretary of Defense originally put out back in fiscal year 2009 for what Guam construction looks like.

I think it would be great if he and I had you and Secretary Gates up here in mid-May to discuss how far you got.

I'm particularly worried about the cost of that proposal.

What is wrong with just having you use the Department of Defense (DOD) stuff since they are generating veterans, or since you are a little bit larger than them right now, having them just surrender and using the VA standard? I mean…

I hope we can reject the administration's proposal to zero out children's graduate medical education.

You have about a $580 million request to root out Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse.

I hope we do not reinvent the wheel. I hope that in fact we reinvent nothing.

I rise today to speak about the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran. We understand that Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei--Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Chief of Staff will be arriving in the United States as early as tomorrow…

I think one of the key problems is for the American people to best understand it the way I think about it is the movie, 'It's A Wonderful Life.'

We are borrowing over $5 billion per day. That's $35 billion borrowed per week to run our government, totaling over $1.5 trillion in borrowed money just to run for a year. Harvard's great economic historian, Niall Ferguson, noted that the…

If we have picked winners and losers in this country, 20 years ago, we picked finance as the winner and manufacturing as the loser.

Would you agree with me that the RTA and all transit authorities are best served by keeping politics out of their management?

the only major industrial power in the world that doesn't have a manufacturing strategy.

the focus of the Congress and the American people is on our unsustainable spending.

I will continue to fight for high-speed rail, but it is now time for the program to produce a compelling and rigorous plan to justify that support--and future funding.

You have about a $580 million request to root out Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse.

I think that much of the healthcare bill will be wiped out and IPAB with it.

I think the country should begin a debate on moving to all-year school.

I think IPAB's future depends on the presidential election.

I hope we do not reinvent the wheel. I hope that in fact we reinvent nothing.

I hope we can reject the administration's proposal to zero out children's graduate medical education.

I would actually argue it probably will kill a lot of medical innovation.

Senator Durbin and I are also working on the Durbin-Kirk ALL-STAR legislation to expand charter school opportunities for kids.

With the cold-blooded murder of four Americans by pirates, our country faces a dangerous enemy as old as the second Washington administration and the earliest days of the U.S. Navy. This danger now stretches across our vital oil supply…

I applaud the Secretary for making some tough decisions in the fiscal year 2012 budget request.