Kay Bailey Hutchison: “Do we have the tools now to communicate, completely and effectively, without bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo, between…”

I rise to talk about the Casey- Hutchison amendment which was added to the bill before us last week. I did not speak before the amendment was agreed to, but I think it is important to highlight it, particularly in light of things that…

let me just say that is not the only thing we could do. We could change the cost of living to the chained consumer price index. That would be OK. It wouldn't get us as much of a deficit reduction over 75 years--a chained CPI--but it would…

This is a little rich.

We will be asking you, Ms. McFarland, how you will represent American values in Singapore, a friend and trading partner.