Bob Corker

I probably will vote for your confirmation regardless, OK?

I join the chair and ranking first in thanking them for their advocacy but really for the hard work of bringing together disparate points of view.

I am proud to serve as an original cosponsor of the implementing legislation, and I look forward to hearing from our panelists and, hopefully, Mr. Chairman, adopting the treaty, helping you pass it, and hopefully getting passage on the…

The Marrakesh Treaty will significantly expand the ability of blind and visually impaired people around the world to have access to books and other materials that the rest of us are able to take for granted.

Massive crises persist in sub-Saharan Africa, each of which has incalculable human costs and represent a threat to United States interests.

I plan to avidly support your nomination and confirmation.

If it ends up costing what has been laid out here, it could well be one of the worst votes I've made.

The changes that have occurred at the White House in the last several hours, and this--it has been an unusual day, I will say. Mr. McCONNELL. Well, my good friend from Tennessee knows that my principal responsibility is begging, pleading…

I wholeheartedly support his nomination. I am confident his diverse background will give him the necessary qualifications to serve TVA's important mission.

I think there would be total upheaval in the Senate if that would happen.

We are, in fact, getting ready to spend $2 trillion more that we do not have by passing the bill we just passed.

Congratulations on your confirmation.

In rolling out its new South Asia strategy last August, the administration underscored the United States' hard-fought security gains in Afghanistan and reiterated our commitment to helping establish a foundation for political resolution.

I actually believe that we have got an opportunity to do something--it is a very complex topic--that matters.

I assume if we were to put in place a new regime, we would want to do what we could to end the too-big-to-fail situation that we have today.

What we really care about is the individual bars and that their securities are guaranteed.

The conservatorship that we now have is unsustainable. Is that correct?

I actually think what they have done is exactly the right thing.

The only three people on this Committee that have not been involved in increasing the deficit over the last 15 months are Senator Harris, Senator Sanders, and Senator Merkley.

It could well be one of the worst votes I have made.

This Congress and this administration likely will go down as one of the most fiscally irresponsible administrations and Congresses that we have had.

Both sides of the aisle are totally remiss as it relates to deficits.

We have these fictitious budgets that create imaginary things that are never going to occur.

I do want to applaud you for creating a more real budget.

I do not care about Congress. I want to ask about the Pentagon.