Kelly Ayotte actually said...

"I think the spirit of how we want to get there is there."

"I'm of the view that, since we do a lot of comprehensive work around here, if there are certain areas that we can come to agreement on, then we should move those immediately."

"It worries me that we're going to have to replicate something that apparently, in the Pentagon, we're doing fairly effectively."

"Well, the prior legislation failed in the Senate so I think all of us want to come to a resolution to find a bipartisan way forward to address these issues."