I applaud your work. I would like to know how many have actually been discharged or disciplined for either lying on applications.

The first obligation of any employer is safety.

suicide is the second leading cause of death among Native American young adults ages 15 to 24. It is 2\1/2\ times the national average. The despair my great friend from the great State of Alaska has just outlined for us--it seems there is…

I will start with a story because I think a lot of us come to the Senate with a lot of experiences, a lot of common experiences, and I think the Senator from Alaska and I have shared this common experience of seeing the despair, looking at…

I might expect you to think about doing that in a building that houses thousands of people in a city that frequently is a target symbolically of terrorism or these kinds of attacks.

Maybe we ought to rethink that as a strategy.

It is troubling that there does not seem to be a lot of kind of creative thinking on how we can use the resources we have more effectively to protect folks.

Is that what we are hearing today?

There has to be serious consequences for not reporting. There has to be serious consequences for lying.

Random checks are a critical and important part of this.

Home ownership is the bedrock of really our political philosophy, also the bedrock of wealth creation for many, many middle-class families.

I think these hearings are just so valuable for us to gather information.