John Warner: “They're excellent and trustworthy and fighting hard with our troops today.”

It is a moving experience for me to reenter this room. I served on this committee for 30 years.

This country is greatly strengthened by the will of such people to step forward and do, time and time again, public service.

I also thought it was extraordinarily important you pointed out that just as it is incumbent upon our military to continue to develop next generation weapons that it's been the legacy of our military forces to always be about innovation.

I'm hopeful someday Congress will pass a, one of those words, comprehensive bill on a whole range of energy directives because our country is waiting desperately for it.