Dan Coats

Just one question. Like last year's budget, the 2013 President's budget assumes that the Congress will introduce and pass an aviation fee increase.

I hope you would join us in a thorough review of procedures just to make sure that our policies are straight on this.

Please consider joining those who are supporting legislation enabling states to enforce full collection of their sales taxes by remote vendors.

If what the House passed becomes law, what do you anticipate the status of current A-10 fleets being?

I wish to speak as in morning business on a matter that affects a lot of Hoosiers. I do so with a great sense of heartfelt condolence to all who have suffered from the tragic storm and tornadoes that swept across the southern part of our…

Why is there no definition of 'victory' in Joint Publication (JP) 1-02: Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms?

So I guess there's a possibility that they wouldn't be operational during that 1-year holding period.

we have to be very careful with taxpayers' money.

I would hope that we wouldn't micro-manage that process.

I don't like to micromanage and tell you, you should spend this here and that there.

We're looking at every possible avenue to try to minimize, mitigate, eliminate these types of leaks.

Mr. Chairman, thank you.

I thank the Senator from Missouri. I thank him also for his willingness to engage with this amendment, to put it in play here for us to debate and discuss. It is a very fundamental principle of our Constitution that is at stake, and it…

I think we will be back talking about adjustments to this budget before we want to.

There are a lot of people on both sides of the aisle who respect all the hard work that you have put in as Secretary.

we are trying to make the best out of a very bad situation, and while we are trying to do that, the clock is ticking toward a nuclear Iran.

The tide of war is receding, and that results in significant savings.

I am not sure what the order is here. I am happy to defer to whatever has been agreed to. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. There is 7\1/2\ minutes remaining on the Republican side.

This is the third anniversary of the President's nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. But it is not an anniversary worth celebrating. Back then, the Obama administration promised the American people that the stimulus bill, if passed, would…

I come to the floor today frustrated, as many of us are, that once again we are not able to address legislation in the way the Senate is designed to address it, which is to debate, to discuss, to offer amendments, and to vote. Once again…

The vote against the President's budget was unanimous, 97 to nothing for 2012 fiscal year.

I think the market makes a better decisionmaking process than the government based on the record.

This plan is a billion more than last year, this budget. I just don't see the possibility given our current fiscal situation of being able to fund everything that you've requested.

I rise today to call upon the President of the United States to rescind one of the most radical and unconstitutional mandates ever issued, a mandate that requires faith- based organizations, hospitals, and educational institutions to…

We judge Iran's nuclear decision-making is guided by a cost-benefit approach.