Why is it a budget priority to invest almost $500 million in new machines and personnel at the TSA just because the Christmas Day bomber boarded a plane in Amsterdam?

I know you agree that we must continue to push Bosnia towards NATO and the EU, and not allow it to become an economic and political black-hole in Europe.

The United States fully embraces the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

I'm troubled. I'm troubled.

When we passed that legislation, there was an anticipation that these would be needed in terms of the security of our Nation.

I had a visit from Admiral Neffenger, who has been in Cleveland, and gotten to know him, and I want to say that the folks that you had at the 9th District have done a pretty darn good job and we're glad to have them in Cleveland in the…

Gone are the days when public officials will be judged on how much they spend on a problem. Public officials will be judged on whether they can work harder and smarter and do more with less.

The other is that the request in front of us includes $4 billion for grants to improve preparedness and response capabilities of State and local government.

I have to tell you, like every other Member of the Senate, I just love those news releases going out to my State that I am buying a fire engine or I am buying this and I am buying that, but I got to ask, what has this got to do with our…

Great Lakes icebreakers. We asked for a study.

If you do not have the biometrics in place, then the program is not going to go forward, and if it is not required, then what is the substitute?

It is interesting that foreign creditors now own roughly half of our debt, China being lead among them.