Secretary Donley, on March 13, 2012, the JSF Program Executive Officer (PEO) sent a memo to the Air Force Service Acquisition Executive regarding the F-35 JSF LRIP 6/7 contracting strategy.

what is the regular order? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate is currently in morning business, with 20 minutes 16 seconds remaining on the Republican side.

I come to the floor to express my concerns on behalf of the 26 million constituents I have in Texas about the rising gas prices and the administration's failure to take reasonable and rational and practical steps to help ease the pain…

I am happy to respond to my colleague from Wyoming Senator Barrasso, who has been not only a Senator but a medical doctor and who has been on the receiving end of government policy, that while it may be well intended, backfires…

as we approach the 2-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act--otherwise known as ObamaCare--there are a lot of things you are going to hear from across the street at the Supreme Court of the United States on the…

I thank the Senator from Wyoming for his response. I think that shows there is an alternative to this outsourcing of our responsibilities to try to make care more affordable to this group of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats and cutting…

I ask the Senator from Wyoming, it seems to me that what the intent is behind this Independent Payment Advisory Board and the President's health care law, sometimes called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act--I think it needs to…

I would like to ask my colleague one final question. Whenever we talk about reforming, saving, and securing Medicare so we can keep the promise we made to seniors that when people reach the appropriate age, they can actually qualify for…

Taiwan needed the newer F-16s to better match China's air superiority.

General Ham, you note that many Manportable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) disappeared from unsecured storage sites in Libya during the conflict last year and could potentially be trafficked to extremist groups.

I want to express my gratitude to the Senator from Missouri for his leadership on this issue. This used to be a topic that was a bipartisan issue dating back to the passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. But just so…

What is your assessment of the risks posed to U.S. interests by the Muslim Brotherhood?