in 2011, after spending approximately $3 billion in developmental funding, the Marine Corps cancelled the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) program due to poor performance and excessive cost growth.

if we buy the SSBN within existing funds, we will not reach 300 ships. In fact, we will find ourselves closer to 250.

I worry that we are on a completely unrealistic path right now given what the real needs are for the Navy on the shipbuilding budget.

Secretary Stackley and General Mills, how has the Marine Corps' collaboration with the Army on the JLTV benefited the Marine Corps?

I see my time has passed, but I am holding the GAO report right here.

I understand that initial plans to integrate the G/ATOR onto a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) were abandoned...

If last year, when General Dunford said that the impact of sequestration would be that the Marine Corps could not respond to one single major contingency, that is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night.

I felt the enhanced improvements to our background checks system -- as you and I both know, the issue wasn't a background check system issue in Sandy Hook.

I thank my colleague from South Carolina and very much thank my colleague from Arizona for, obviously, their leadership on this issue. I have great confidence in our criminal justice system, having both defended and tried criminal cases in…

I would say to the Senator from South Carolina, I don't know how that isn't possible in this case. Any defense lawyer--as they should--to defend their client, there is no way they will allow that individual who committed the terrorist…

yesterday I came to the floor to oppose the cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act. I, of course, would like to, I think properly, name it the Internet Tax Collection Act because that is what it…

I rise to support the comments of my colleague from Montana on the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act, which is being brought up today on the floor. I previously said it should be renamed the Internet Tax Collection Act because it is going…