A quick colloquy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There was consent granted for a colloquy.

I believe the Senator from Wisconsin wants to make a comment before I do. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). The Senator from Wisconsin.

In my view, there are two fronts to the war with ISIS. One is military. The other is ideas.

Are there any savings to be had? And if so, we would like to quantify them because in fiscal year 2017 we are going to face about a $15 billion shortfall.

I voted for the JCPOA but it was based upon an understanding and expectation that it would be scrupulously enforced.

My concern is that other nations are going through that process, making claims, and we are standing on the sidelines.

It seems to me a natural.

It is ironic in the extreme that we are the people that invented Facebook and Twitter and all of those things, and we are losing on that front.

It is preposterous that we do not have more significant icebreaker capacity, particularly given what is happening in the Arctic.

today I have joined my esteemed colleague, Senator Susan Collins, in submitting a resolution designating December 12, 2015, as Wreaths Across America Day. What started as a quiet tribute to our Nation's veterans in a small town in…

if you have a large, cumbersome, slow structure, you will have cumbersome, slow, consensus-driven, and ultimately unsatisfactory policy or strategy

consensus is the enemy. You cannot adapt if you have a consensus-based process

I think literally a structure that builds competition and contrarianism into the system might be salutary.

We are also fighting an idea. And I think if there is any gap in the--well, there are several gaps, but one of the serious gaps is the clash of ideas gap.

I love the idea of a red team in the Pentagon or perhaps in the National Security Council whose job it is to contest the conventional wisdom.

Is real policy not made in the White House these days?

the tendency of any bureaucracy is, A, to say no and, B, to grow.

One of the problems, it seems to me, is that people that we elect President generally are politicians, and politicians generally don't think much about management.

Very quickly, I just wanted to mention that Senator Enzi and a number of us have a bill on biennial budgeting.

I would respectfully suggest, as I did for the CMO position and the sub-CMO positions, that you need statutory qualification requirements.

If the oversight from the White House is more about policy and politics than it is about running the enterprise--I mean, there's a reason it's called 'the administration.'

I was a staff member here in the Senate and was once called upon to set up a hearing.

The person who's in charge at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, it seems to me, has an enormous role to play, if they choose to play it.

The Congress oversees the branches--the Departments of the executive branch. But, it has no responsibility to oversee the coordination of them.

I think it is important to put into perspective the discussion about defense spending and domestic discretionary spending.