Jack Reed

There is not a precise comparison but an analogy to your proposal with respect to some of the health care programs in the military.

Senator, my confidence exists, relative to the inspections that we do associated with our nuclear enterprise.

Senator, the requirements have been established for the Ohio replacement, and there's design work that's underway.

Senator, I agree, we can, today, defend it, and it's going to continue to evolve.

Senator, yes, I am confident that we can protect those networks associated with our strategic deterrent.

Despite that very poor initial role-model relationship, he has done quite well for himself.

Thank you, gentlemen, for your service.

In January, 20 of my colleagues and I sent a letter urging the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to prioritize increasing the number of students served with the surplus funds.

Again I compliment my colleagues Senator Durbin, Senator Warren, and Senator Gillibrand on their commitment to reinvigorating our higher education policy and doing it in an efficient and cost-effective way so the future generation of…

I would encourage you to do that, but also it is--you know, the areas of the country that really do need an infusion of jobs, and exports generate jobs, I think we would put high on your priority list, and I hope you can do that.

And let me underscore what you have already said, that in addition to getting credit out, you are bringing your default rate down dramatically.

The need not only to keep our promises to the retired community, which should be considered invulnerable in my view, but also everyone's commitment to people on Active Duty that they have the best training, the best equipment, that their…

But it doesn't preclude us and it shouldn't preclude us from taking the action to correct it and then wait for the commission's deliberations.

We believe that two things must happen. It needs to change before it's implemented and we need to give space to this commission to allow it to be effective.

The presumption I think within the Commission is not only will their recommendations allow us to deliberate and make thoughtful decisions based upon inputs from everywhere, but also in basic fairness that they will be implemented on a…

I hope that we will and not wait for the Commission because there is a clear consensus we should clear the air on this issue.

One is we have to correct this issue, and my sense is that has to be done very quickly, immediately, for many reasons.

If we were as composed as August, we'd get more business done here in the Senate.

I want to just say how enthusiastic I am about the nominees. Their service to the Nation already has been spectacular.

But, we are going to have to look for alternative funding mechanisms, frankly. I think you would concur?

I think that is very appropriate, and I think, in addition to what you laid out, there are probably secondary and tertiary effects.

But, the President was wise enough to say, we are going to pay for it and we are going to be able to expand.

There is another, I think, reality we have to come to grips with, is that the essence of the Highway Trust Fund, the funding mechanism is the gasoline tax, as I understand it.

We feel with this government it's much more reliable than with the Maliki Government?

We welcome the return of the Marine Corps to its amphibious routes.