Kay Bailey Hutchison: “Securing our transportation network and infrastructure is vital for our national defense and our economic prosperity.”

I know there are those on my side who would also like to have a conference to talk about this. Could we have an indication as to the timeframe of the vote?

I definitely think it is in NATO's purview.

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…

I want to say that we all will miss Senator Inouye. He was one of the most loved people who have ever served in this Senate. But I also want to say that we have passed on now and will take the bill in its entirety later. But because of the…