most of the business systems DOD has bought are over-budget and have gone long past scheduled delivery.

I have offered an amendment to H.R. 2055. It seeks to help to make sure our wounded warriors get the benefits of next-generation advanced prosthetics in a timely fashion. This amendment would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to…

I thank my colleague from South Dakota. This is such an important issue, as he has pointed out, and as his constituent has written him. As a mother of two children, I am deeply concerned with what is going to happen to the next generation…

I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up my amendment No. 575, which is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The assistant bill…

I thank my colleague from South Dakota. And I, too, hope we will have bipartisan support for this cut, cap, and balance plan. It is so critical, and as the President's own fiscal commission said: Our challenge is clear and inescapable…

The trucking industry is vital to the health of the American economy.

I thank my colleague. What I have heard from my constituents in New Hampshire--and we do have a requirement to balance our budget, and it is not easy to make those tough choices--is that they do not understand why in Washington there is…

Truck safety is important to everyone, because we all share the same roads.

Make no mistake--our actions as policymakers are felt across the economy.

I think the people in New Hampshire make better decisions on where to put the funding than someone in Washington.

I believe that we do need to take up a reauthorization of the transportation bill and that we need to make some hard choices.

States know how to best prioritize transportation funding.