It was great to have your wife join you, too. It meant a great deal to our commonwealth.

I particularly want to thank you for your visit to Hanscom Air Force Base.

I have real concerns about this bill's potential impact on the long-term success of Massachusetts fisheries.

The work they do at Natick is critical for our future. These are the kinds of technologies that we need.

The safety and security of Afghan women remains an important barometer.

I found him to be a remarkably decent and honorable man, always of great integrity.

If you really care about opening the national parks, about putting our government workers back to work, that we could have a vote today on a clean CR.

A bill could have been brought to the floor that would have Democratic support, the Senate bill that was passed by the Senate on a bipartisan basis.

It is absurd that we are holding this hearing without a single witness from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Federal Government is shut down today for one reason: we have been denied any chance of voting on the clean funding bill passed by the Senate.

I urge you to do that, despite all these financial challenges.