Roger Wicker

$7 billion doesn't go as far as it used to.

$7 billion doesn't go as far as it used to go.

It just makes me feel very good about the brilliance of the Founding Fathers.

So, your capability in the Arctic is now one. You'd like for it to be two.

Have you had time to review the Appropriation Committee's proposal to add $1 billion for an icebreaker?

Thank you very much.

As a matter of fact, the plan that Missouri has put forward, as a matter of fact, attempts to make that promise come true by using coal, by eliminating particulate emissions into the environment, and actually fulfilling the promise that…

It is insulting for a member of this Senate to come in here and to suggest that this hearing... demonstrates that Members of the Congress are wholly owned by the fossil fuel industry.

Let's think national system when we do. Let's think long distance interest when we do, sir.

It's just heartbreaking.

I do hope that your team can be as enthusiastic about this as I am and as my team is.

As a matter of fact, that was established in the FAST Act.

Continuing the national program ensures that auto manufacturers can build a single fleet of U.S. vehicles that satisfy requirements of both Federal programs as well as California's program.

I would like to add a comment from the current TransCom commander, GEN Darren McDew. In January, General McDew said, ``As a military professional and senior leader, I think about and plan for what the future may hold, and I would tell you…

I join today with my good friend, Senator Hirono, to address the requirement for full authorized funding of the Maritime Security Program. Senator Hirono and I serve together on the Seapower Subcommittee and firmly believe that this…

Frankly, I wish Congress had been more resolute in that regard, also, back in 2013.

Well, we certainly haven't seen that out of the Russian leadership.

Secretary Carter, you said Assad cannot be part of the future. Is that the explicit view of the President of the United States?

I wonder why the President has not directed us to prevent these civilian fatalities and casualties by taking out Assad's air force.

Do you agree that we have the capability to take out Assad's air force?

Lead in the water, completely unacceptable; children swimming in lakes polluted by raw sewage, absolutely unacceptable anywhere.

Is EPA insisting on a Cadillac for these communities when actually a used Chevrolet would do all right?

You should not have to wait until right before deployment to get yourself up to speed to be ready to go. You would expect the Marine Corps to be ready tonight.

Do you believe that field artillery should also be a modernization focus area for the Marines?

The support of the Congress for these critical ships is appreciated and must continue for the Marine Corps to meet the Nation's needs.