Jack Reed

The investment in discrimination and tracking would enhance our ability to engage any missile coming from any direction.

I would just like to follow on to the question with FHA because I understand that there are some proposals in the budget that would give you further tools to help FHA.

Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary.

Let me follow up on the chairwoman's very timely and important question about management.

We know we have to invest for the future of the Section 202 Program.

And you cannot do it without congressional authority.

The other dilemma we have at the moment is those reserves have been exhausted.

We understand where we are. Let me just quickly, how much do you estimate you need in fiscal year 2016 above the 2015 levels just to keep current programs operating?

I want to be very clear that we need to increase the caps for non-defense discretionary spending as well.

I think is wrong also. That is another reason why we have got to just continue to focus on getting a reasonable budget.

We are not going to need less senior housing. We are going to need more senior housing.

Senator Collins is respected in this body as one of the most thoughtful, dedicated, sincere, and effective legislators.

I am extraordinarily pleased to have the opportunity to work with you as the ranking member.

I would hope that this committee will look very favorably on providing funds through that mechanism, which could be applied, to the point you made, which would be to supplement your shipbuilding funds.

The ability for undersea forces, with their assured access, to be able to provide clandestine strike capability is vital to the joint force.

I think your budget, the President's budget, recognizes this.

I would hope in the future we could learn lessons from Hurricane Sandy and recognize that we are on the firing lines.

You cannot draw a line. We have to get rid of sequestration.

Sequestration would be devastating to defense, but the point has to be raised, it would be devastating to every department of the Federal Government.

Coastal resilience has to be key.

Giving more presidential and congressional accountability to this key figure in the financial system would go a very long way to ensuring that the public can participate, appropriately, in the governance of its central bank.

I support consideration of the use of 'offensive' weapons to change President Putin's decision calculus.

Europe does, indeed, matter for U.S. national security.

The economic reforms, from both a quality of life and a--the politics and the willingness of the Ukrainian people to support the government, are absolutely critical.

Russia's aggression against Ukraine has challenged the post-Cold War vision of a Europe whole, free, and at peace.