I think you want to have a way to perhaps retain some more of those people who may be at the peak of their professional abilities.

It is not that we make it permanent. It is that we open up the possibility that you can do it and you can make it permanent if you choose to make it permanent.

I worry that the Pentagon is just not set up either to be able to help guide careers or to be able to attract people.

I believe that if we make them permanent and if we make this an established part of the way the career pattern works with the help of our military leadership, we can really build some more flexibility.

As painful as it is to have arbitrary rules, sometimes those arbitrary rules really serve an important function.

All the children are above average.

One of the central aspects of the military culture is an inability to say no.

It is clear to me that the Social Security Administration's work is very important and that the field offices are critical to making sure that Americans get the benefits that they are entitled to.

So, Mr. Borland, despite years of underfunding, Senate appropriators have proposed a more than $400 million cut to the Social Security Administration budget for this year.

Here is how I see it: Social Security and Medicare are contracts that we make with each other.

I rise today to urge my colleagues to vote against the confirmation of Alex Azar to serve as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS. When Congress confirms somebody to be HHS Secretary, they are putting that…

government should invest in our seniors. And that starts with making sure that the Social Security Administration offices are fully funded.

I believe, though, we need to look beyond the bare minimum and to stop lurching from crisis to crisis just to try to keep the lights on.

Even if the Fed did succeed in the Herculean task for getting the unemployment rate down to 7 percent, we could never be sure that the unemployment rate was below what we call the 'natural rate,' in which case it would give rise to a…

The idea was to accelerate development of medical countermeasures by investing in biomedical research.

When a public health emergency hits, the headlines are all about what is happening on a minute by minute, hour by hour basis.

These are the investments that we have to make in our Nation's preparedness and our response capabilities if we are going to be ready when an emergency strikes.

The Fed needs to restore positive real short-term interest rates fairly soon.

These wrong predictions are not outliers for you. They have been part of your overall approach to monetary policy.

That is a pretty significant shortfall.

So let us talk about that sustained investment.

So this really worries me. You are telling me it is a market that only works if the Federal Government makes the investment and that the yearly appropriations process is not working in this field.

But some Senators have proposed scrapping that program as part of simplification.

I think it is important to stand up to unfair commercial practices that harm our economy and threaten our national security.

So the loan companies' incentives are not the same as the students' incentives?