Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I think he certainly has the capability to handle this job, and it is a big one, as the Chairman has said eloquently.”

Decisions on enlargement are for NATO and the nation in question; no other outside country, such as Russia, has a voice in the process.

I am so touched by the comments of my colleague Senator Mikulski about myself and Olympia. I appreciate so much that she has singled us out because Senator Mikulski is a pioneer. She didn't build the pyramids, I might say, but it was…

I have visited U.S. troops in harm's way in every conflict that we had when I was in the Senate.

there is a lot of buzzing going on around the Capitol today. Here we are on New Year's Eve, and so many of us had hoped we would have an agreement that would be really a big agreement, a long-term agreement that we would have liked to have…