"the United States has broad and fundamental national security interests in the Arctic."
"the Coast Guard still requires about $32 million to complete the reactivation."
"I am surprised that the President's budget request would cut the Office of Health Affairs by 12 percent compared to last year."
"I appreciate the difficult decisions that must be made in every budget cycle overall."
"I must say, as I talked with Mr. Kampelman and read this op-ed, it put forth an inspiring vision, one that I think all of us wish could come about today."
"But how many of them have actually been prosecuted?"
"I'm very troubled by your statement in your testimony saying that the root cause of Somali piracy lies in the poverty that continues to plague this troubled country."
"I look forward to getting the specific statistics from you, because it's my understanding that very few of these pirates have actually been brought to justice."
"Additional funding for infrastructure is what stimulus should be about."
"I want to follow up on Senator Mikulski's concerns about the treatment of women at a time when we're proposing to ramp up our economic assistance to Afghanistan."
"The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was an important step forward in efforts to rehabilitate and improve our Nation's transportation infrastructure system, but there is more that can be done."