Kelly Ayotte

I certainly would like to hear your view more specifically as to why an east coast missile defense site would or would not enhance our capability to address an ICBM coming from Iran.

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

It is essential that we encourage President Morsi to send the Ambassador back to Israel to ensure a direct line for dialogue exists between the two countries.

I completely agree with General Austin.

While I believe the return of the Egyptian Ambassador to Israel would definitely contribute to sustaining the peace between Egypt and Israel, I don't think it is a necessity.

The partnership between the Egyptian and Israeli military and foreign ministries... shows a continuing commitment towards sustaining the peace between Egypt and Israel.

I fear that if they continue to use negotiations to delay that we will be at a point where they have nuclear weapons capability and then it's too late.

The provisions have been very helpful in cutting off funds to those, our enemy, when contractors are contracting to those that we don't want taxpayers' dollars to go to.

Insanity is the definition of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

I dare say that we can't think of another country that is doing more damage in terms of terrorism around the world and hurting our interests and those of our allies.

Senator Blumenthal and I are working on an effort to extend those provisions beyond Afghanistan to other combatant commands.

I really appreciate it.

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…

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.

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

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.

Obama of putting his own reelection ahead of the interests of working Americans and our national security.

It hurts them very badly.

This tax drops to the bottom line.

In fact, in New Hampshire, we have approximately 50 medical device companies employing almost 3,800 people.

I think that, as Senator Warner pointed out, one of the issues we have is if you look at the CBO projections on if we continue on the trajectory that we are on in terms of interest payments, basically, it would take--crowd out and cover…

If Congress does not act soon, the Postal Service could be forced to implement reforms to allow the post office to be sustainable.

I firmly believe this is an area where we can come up with a bipartisan agreement.

This is something that my colleague Senator Shaheen and I have been working on together.