If you have ever toured a sawmill most modern sawmills now have a device called an optimizer...

I am all for markets, but only if they are real markets.

We have got to figure out how to adapt to it, not fight it and strangle it in its crib.

I rise to share some good news from my home State of Maine. It is the story of veterans helping veterans--of three people from Maine who have positively impacted the lives of thousands of veterans in my State and have done so in a unique…

many of the provisions of this bill are particularly applicable in the West.

The road to hell is often paved with good intentions.

this is a dead horse that deserves beating, in my view.

It would be absolutely tragic if we squandered the success that we have achieved and that the Afghan people have achieved by prematurely pulling out according to some date on a calendar.

there is little I can add to the remarks of the Senator from Virginia on this issue. I think this institution is being tested this week, this month, and over the next several months in a way that is really somewhat new. The test, the…

Procurement is an issue that the whole committee is concerned about particularly in these tight budget times.

Losing competition means that you don't--the Navy doesn't get the best price.

But, you can't do that now.

It would be ironic and dangerous, it seems to me, to be following the opposite course.

This is a major area where the Russians are moving very aggressively, and I think we need to take account of that.

If we reimpose sequestration this year, as you've testified, that would be a severe impact across the board.

If we don't replace sequestration, decisions we make today to defer shipbuilding programs will have 30-year consequences that we can't foresee.

I'm talking about things like territorial claims and the adjudications. I understand by not being members we're out of that process.

I would like to be the Arctic Senator. The response was, 'No, you can be the Assistant Arctic Senator.'

I would suggest that a staff of three in this situation does not represent a significant commitment by this country.

Command and control, a crucial part of the nuclear deterrent. How do you feel about where we are in command and control particularly in light of the developing cyber threat?

The whole theory of deterrence rests upon rational state actors, and we are now in a world of irrational non-state actors.

How is Russia doing in their compliance with New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)?

What does sequester do to all that?

Could you give us an update on the status of the Environmental Impact Statement's (EISs) for the ground-based sites, U.S.-based?

We would be recommending that the base be looked at.