I certainly can appreciate that anti-piracy missions require significant resources and present many legal issues.
A nuclear armed Iran would dramatically shift the balance of power between Iran and key regional nations.
I mean it is great not to have an excuse, but what actually is happening?
Thank you, Madam Chair, and again congratulations to you and Senator Roberts for your leadership on this Committee.
Thank you for your visionary leadership. We have made such a difference in these two years.
It is either you are with us or you are not? Either you are helping or you are not.
Not only are we trying to fund our own needs; I guess we're funding the Taliban's needs, too.
I would argue that what's happening down there is pretty darn close to being a war, a war on drugs, and a form of terror.
I would like them to be held accountable. I would like them to be shut down.
In a sense, even poorly funded State and public defined benefit plans are better funded than Social Security.
The fact that we are hiring 500 new auditors just smacks of me saying, 'Wow, something is broken somewhere.'