Jack Reed

We really do appreciate your leadership and look forward to discussing this budget request with you.

If we cannot give them the certainty of a 4- or 5-year plan of committed Federal funding at a reasonable and, we hope, robust level, they will be on their own, and frankly they will perform even worse.

As you recognized that day, our airport is a catalyst for economic growth, and we are still lagging the country in terms of employment.

But the concern we have is that the way that the proposal is drafted, it has to have premium features.

There is no better investment than infrastructure.

Thank you very much, Chairman Collins, for your excellent testimony and statement, rather, and for your leadership.

I think the key is flexibility, because, again, there are rural areas that are very much underserved and then there are some older urban areas that are not growing but depend critically on transit in terms of being more productive and more…

How is the administration proposing to help these transit systems deal with a very quick change in their workforce?

Thank you very much for your service and for your testimony.

I think that is especially dangerous, just because with a QM loan, there is nothing anybody can do about it if it goes bad.

This huge, staggering student loan debt, which Senator Warren and Senator--I am looking down on my colleagues on both sides are trying to deal with.

I think we are going to have to sustain engagement across Southeast Asia.

China has been undergoing a massive military modernization process, coupled with its aggressive and destabilizing behavior in the East China and South China seas.

You have made a compelling case that China is not only rising but doing so with extraordinary momentum.

I believe that the North Korean possession of nuclear weapons and pursuit of intercontinental delivery capabilities pose serious and growing security challenges.

Long term, Assad cannot be the future of Syria.

The emerging refugee crisis in Europe highlights the urgent need for the international community to focus on restoring security in the region.

I think we always have to think worst case, which is with or without an agreement, with or without the durability of sanctions, if we detect a movement away from compliance and they are developing a nuclear capacity or technology or a…

The situation in the Middle East presents a deeply complex problem set, and it is a near certainty that the problems that were there challenge our Nation's security today and for many years to come.

Even with the sanctions regime in place and we do not have an agreement, do you believe that the Iranians will accelerate their efforts to develop a nuclear device or at least a virtual nuclear device rather than just simply sort of status…

This would not be a one-dimensional approach by the Department of Defense.

We are talking about a multi-trillion dollar enterprise over many years.

We have to resolve internal conflicts in Iraq between Sunni, Shia, and Kurds.

Sequestration will hurt you in some sense more than other defense agencies.

There would be a significant impact and place in jeopardy the new start programs that I have discussed today.