Sam Brownback: “I think it really wants to be better tied to the United States.”

The signal this Democratic Congress is sending is clear: We'll spend whatever taxpayer money it takes to save a government job; the rest of you American workers can take a hike.

we have to get more focus on this by a broader cross-section, or we will not be effective in this.

My major concern . . . is the jobs in Kansas. Wichita is the air capital of the world, and we've got more major air companies there than anyplace in the world: Boeing, Airbus and all the [general aviation],

The beauty of what this job has been I think under the prior administration and this one is that there are contentious issues that people do not agree upon.