Jerry Moran

That would be a change in policy at GSA.

How is it that a Federal employee is able to be reimbursed for the room?

I would encourage the Treasury Department to fully implement, to enforce the sanctions as authorized by the Congress in regard to Iran.

But you just indicated that's not your belief. In fact, speculation, what benefits arise from those who speculate in markets, in the oil market.

However, Under Secretary O'Toole said that the reassessment committee will also consider the question of, 'Could the country manage Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which would not be pushed to a Bio-Safety Level 4 (BSL-4) level?'

I don't understand how, for example, Mr. Miller, the rooms got paid for.

In my view, there remains to be a lot of work done in regard to innovation and startups, creating an entrepreneurship environment.

It appears to me that you've done a good and thorough job. I thank you for your service to the public.

I'm worried about how a company who's trying to make investment decisions, borrow money, make decisions about whether to invest in additional plant and equipment, expand their business, is going to have the certainty that they're not going…

I am going to ask you to advise one of my bankers in their efforts to comply with the record keeping requirements of the Volcker Rule.

If they had the need, the waiver process would work in their benefit to see that they had the capacity to continue to deploy broadband, but also to pay for the loans and grants, to repay the loans and grants.

A threshold seems to be the operative word.

The need for transparency and accountability in our financial markets also extends to those who regulate them.

And I think your testimony was an indication that with that magnitude of speculation, there is a consequence to the price, either up or down.

The credibility of any regulatory framework is also critical to ensuring its success.

The time to accelerate our withdrawal from Afghanistan has arrived. Afghanistan has very little to do with the security of most Americans. Osama bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda is decimated. In fact, there may be 50, at the most, al Qaeda…

just to conclude, I would like to thank and commend the Senator from South Dakota for his leadership on these issues and again express my pleasure that we are finally taking up legislation that will make it easier for new businesses to…

I thank the Senator from South Dakota. I am pleased that we are here finally on a topic of significant importance to the country. We have heard for a long time about the necessity of creating jobs, of creating an opportunity for Americans…

I have no doubt that the ability to have an economic recovery and create jobs is, in so many ways, determined by what happens with our actions in regard to an energy policy and the development of our own resources. Certainly, while we are…

We have seen serious fatalities, a record of more than, 21.3 percent per 100,000.

One of the many challenges facing our Nation involves a shortage of well-trained allied health professionals to meet the increasing medical needs of the aging workforce.

I do want to make very clear that it is important for us to allow for young people to have the ability to go through education programs such as 4-H programs.

We just want to make sure that we get it right, that we get the most abundant comments from people that are out in the field.

I just want to make certain, absolute certain, that in this need to find this safe environment by the Department of Labor, that you don't overreact, that you don't overreach, and that we don't fundamentally alter the way that rural…

the disappointment that the President's budget is inadequate--in fact, requests no money this year for the continuation of that project.