I am a little uneasy with the declaration made by the DOD that plans to conduct a global rollout of this program by the end of next fiscal year is something that they are focused on actually doing.

Having been there, I am greatly concerned as well, and I am concerned that a lot of the folks that are supposed to be doing the training are not fulfilling their obligations with our coalition forces, too.

the taxpayers are being hurt and the soldiers that are trying to defend us and do their jobs are being provided with--they have a disadvantage because some of our own monies are being potentially used to hurt or kill them, and I find that…

I have great concern about our soldiers, the men and women that are fighting, and also the taxpayers who are providing that $56 billion.

I mirror Senator McCaskill's kind words about your service.

I agree with him that we must be better buyers and buy from better people.

It seems like several years now that the DOD and the Department of Veterans Affairs are kind of playing a blame game when it comes to the DES pilot program.

It is good to be back. Thank you for putting this together, and thank you to the witnesses for appearing.

Instead of trying to stay in their homes, they are saddled with back payments, penalties, and late fees.

Each day Ohioans are failed by the modification process.

The predatory practices of the mortgage servicing industry are remarkably similar to the predatory practices that led to the subprime crisis.

My focus is on how we get more out of the dollars that we have.

I am here to learn and to see what tools and resources we can either provide or are needed to do your job better for the folks that need your help.

What are you doing to try to save money, as well, because the money tree is getting smaller.

All right. Well, maybe we can talk about that offline and figure out a way to help you get to where you need to be.

No, I understand that. I am----

If the records are not complete, it is a waste of time and money for a whole host of reasons.

I have learned also that we waste a tremendous amount of money beginning programs, putting a few hundred million dollars in it, and then just say, oh, that does not work.

It was 10 years ago this month that the Senate passed permanent normal trade relations with China. Initially, that was called most-favored-nation status... We had a trade deficit with China in the fairly low double digits back 10 years…

I am incredulous that we are fighting to bring this legislation to the floor, this legislation which will help us rebuild our industrial base, which will help us create, enlarge, strengthen the middle class, which helps us with our budget…

I think that every agency in the Federal Government should do a top-to-bottom review and try to streamline, consolidate, and offer those savings.

I would hope that, at some point, we would start to lead by example.

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I appreciate the comments of Senator Klobuchar, who has been a leader on moving forward on this legislation on food safety. It is so important to our country. I am so sorry that pretty much one obstructionist, or a whole party of…

I have been listening with fascination to the Senator's speech because there is nobody who comes to the floor and better explains jobs, trade, trade policy, and tax policy and what it does to our communities and our workers. The Senator…