This budget is wholly insufficient, and it's not your fault, Madam Chair. It's our fault as the general Appropriations Committee.
I can honestly say, of all the committees I serve on, there is no budget that is in more crisis than this one.
It's going to bankrupt us. We have a problem as it is under the one-for-one.
What that means is our economy is weaker every day that a ship has to be light-loaded or stand offshore because the channel isn't deep enoug...
We could have saved the size of the State of Rhode Island, which we have already lost.
We need to be very aggressive in gathering the maritime dollars that are being paid for our ports and for our dredging.
I see that in your budget you propose using the $2.4 billion remaining in budget authority related to the 2011 Strategic Petroleum Reserve (...
These budget constraints are really constraining a part of the budget that at least our States rely on significantly.
I have great sympathy for Alaska, and I am going to work with Senator Murkowski to think about some exemptions for Alaska that I am going to...
What occurs to me is that the National Guard, along with the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, by having basically part-time civ...
one of the reasons we are not able to get a full extension is over this issue, and the other thing that is in that bill that I strongly obje...