I am proud that someone who was born in Ohio is such a dedicated public serviceperson.

I would like to thank you for holding this hearing today on the nomination of Ms. Raffinan to be an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Superior Court.

I rise today to express my support for the passage of H.R. 5297, the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. Things are more challenging now for our Nation than at any time during my life. Americans are worried about our Nation's future and their…

I will not support General Kagan's nomination. I did not come to this decision lightly. ... I have determined General Kagan at this time does not meet the criteria for membership on our Nation's highest Court.

I come to the floor today to support the Oil Spill Response Improvement Act of 2010. It is a bill that seeks to directly deal with one of the most serious issues facing our country today in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon incident…

Meanwhile, the Gulf of Mexico is now under a revised moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling imposed by President Obama and the Department of Interior. This moratorium jeopardizes 30 percent of this Nation's domestic oil production and…

I would really like to know from the time that former Under Secretary of Defense Ken Krieg was involved just what we have accomplished.

Yes, and the other thing I am interested in knowing if you are not able to hit your targets, is it because you are not getting the budget support that you are supposed to be getting from the Department, or are we doing something over here…

I think in the whole Department of Homeland Security, for example, the question was, are they moving forward, are they making progress, in integrating the Department's functions?

The American people finally are realizing that last year, out of every dollar we spent, we borrowed 41 cents.

I was encouraged by how the Department is addressing the great challenge posed by the simultaneous drawdown in Iraq and surge in Afghanistan.

I would encourage you to get together a little bit more and try to dot the ``i''s and cross the ``t''s and move ahead.