John Thune

I still think there is significant room for improvement.

I thank the Chair. (The remarks of Senator Thune pertaining to the introduction of S. 1724 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing to examine unfair financial practices that may be harming our military community; it's something that I'm sure all of us, as members of this committee, care about.

Ms. Petraeus, thank you, by the way for your personal visits.

I think the business community has an obligation to bomb us out of that, just as you have been helpful to us in the cybersecurity question.

South Dakota is a great partner when it comes to providing low cost of doing business.

The Department said that the AMTECH program 'will provide cost-shared funding to industry-led consortia that will develop technologies to address major technical problems that will spur the adoption of advanced manufacturing capabilities…

There is no question that manufacturing is critical to our Nation's economy and our global competitiveness.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I understand that in July of this year, the Administration expanded its NNMI proposal from 15 to 45 regional manufacturing innovation institutes.

In my home state of South Dakota, more than 1,000 manufacturing firms support more than 41,000 jobs.

It is a riveting ideological ruination as far as I am concerned.

I want to direct this, if I might, to Dr. Perlmutter.

It's only going to get worse if we don't fix the sequester and continue to invest in our world-class scientists.

I will again push for the reauthorization of this important piece of legislation.

Thank you. And that's some really cool stuff that's going on out there.

Sequestration's indiscriminate cuts are costing us very dearly.

I think most Americans believe in grace. Most Americans are pretty forgiving people. And so they will tolerate and accept honest mistakes. But to me, this is a dishonest mistake.

You have been misleading the American people, and the President has, over and over and over again.

It just strikes me that it would be a lot--I think people would be accepting of it.

If you like your health care plan, you can keep it, period.

I am one of the people who believes that this is fundamentally flawed legislation.

I think it is a tragedy that the American people bought into this and that you all knew full well it was not going to be the case.

It is the law, but it is a law that the administration has chosen to delay portions of.

I think that's an overwhelming sickness that has to be eliminated.