Yesterday, the Senate voted for cloture on the unemployment insurance extension bill. Unfortunately, we are still delaying and deferring the final vote on this measure. This is essential to millions of Americans who need the money they…

The unconditional extension of the Bush tax cuts would add further to a structural deficit that is much too high at the moment, is that your opinion?

As you pointed out, the President signed the financial reform bill this morning and there are many that thought we could not do it, get it passed.

But it is a tribute to Senator Dodd's leadership, actually, the collaboration of everyone on this committee, including many of my Republican colleagues.

we are seeing over the last 12 months a slow recovery in our job market. In the last 6 months, we have seen that accelerate but not sufficiently to reduce unemployment to anything comparable to a full employment economy. This year, so far…

on June 29, 2010, the House-Senate conference committee completed its deliberations on the most significant financial regulatory legislation since the 1930s. And, now, this conference report is before the Senate for final enactment. It…

I rise to pay tribute to an extraordinary officer and gentleman--my dear friend BG Patrick Finnegan. Pat Finnegan and I go back a long way. We were classmates from the class of 1971 at West Point. We went to the Kennedy School of…

But for the thousands and thousands of unemployed Rhode Islanders, nothing has changed much and we have to keep our eyes focused on unemployment.

Until we have a solid growth in employment that is sustainable and recognized by people, not here and on Wall Street but on Main Street, then we haven't done the job.

next Monday, LTG Franklin Hagenbeck will retire from the U.S. Army after 39 years of service. He is a friend and a classmate from West Point, the class of 1971. Buster Hagenbeck has distinguished himself as a soldier, as a scholar, as an…

I rise to pay tribute to an extraordinary Senator--Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Chairman Byrd was the longest serving Senator in the history of this country. He served with extraordinary distinction not only on behalf of the people of…

I just think these are programs that have so much further potential and benefit that we have to get them right in terms of deploying them effectively.

The ARRA money will run out.

How are we going to keep this going?

Well, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I am proud to be here with Senator Stabenow who is leading this effort to remind all of us of our obligations to the most vulnerable Americans--those who have lost their work in this economic crisis, who are looking desperately for work…

In what ways do you coordinate with your Reserve component counterparts to ensure that our guardsmen and reservists are receiving the mental health treatment they may need following their demobilization?

we also have to prepare to care for the conditions that may not manifest for 5, 10, or 15 years after a deployment.

We both have the interest in, on one hand, allowing people to inspect and verify the relevant data, the critical data on numbers of systems.

So this is not some current trendy, chic thing that the President's talking about.

My sense--and I'll ask you for your sense, General--is that if this treaty is not ratified, the prospects of serious follow-on discussions about nuclear reductions are probably close to zero.

Your judgment from your perspective is that relationship of the treaty would enhance stability and transparency into their operations?

If the Russians were to deploy missile defense, it would depend on the capabilities of those systems.

Isn't that the definition of nuclear instability?

That's why President Reagan said 'trust but verify.' We will be verifying.