I had an opportunity to meet with Admiral Ferguson yesterday.

The Navy, in looking at their resources and budget, have come up with a proposal that could end all the furloughs.

I have asked him about this on many instances. But what I really want to ask you is will you meet the law and produce the budgetary statement of audit-ready budget statements by the end of 2014 because it is the law?

As I understand it, Chris Dell is your deputy on that team, who is a pretty high-ranking official in the State Department.

Can you tell me right now--in the article it said that the Joint Chiefs had agreed that we could trim the number of active nuclear weapons in America's arsenal by nearly a third and make big cuts in the stockpile of backup weapons.

I ask unanimous consent that in addition to the two cloture votes on bills dealing with the sequester today, there be set a time, to be determined by the majority leader in consultation with the Republican leader, that without intervening…

I thank the Chair, and I thank very much the Senator from Rhode Island for allowing me the opportunity to continue and for sorting out the order on the floor.

I thank the Senator for his statement and for his support and I certainly join in the comments and concerns that were just raised by my colleagues Senators McCain and Graham. Here is where we are. We are in this position where, frankly, as…

I thank the Senator, and I wanted to first say I know she is the new chair of the Appropriations Committee and I congratulate her on that. As we go forward, as we look at why we are where we are, if we can get back to regular order in the…

we certainly need to do things differently if we are going to sustain these programs for people like my grandparents.

the Trustees have said that it will go bankrupt in terms of--in 2024.

we have looked at perhaps means testing further Medicare for those who are more fortunate later on in life.