Kay Bailey Hutchison

I remain concerned about the ramifications of this decision on the thousands of people who are part of Continental.

Do you foresee any changes in your very strong hub to Latin America that would switch to other places?

I just wanted to go back, Mr. McKenzie, to better understand what your comment was about Southwest and its ability to compete.

Let me be clear: the proposed merger is a very hard sell in Texas.

I hope to be able to give you some thoughts that I have and perhaps work with you to see if we can be more efficient with the military construction side in the future.

When you are looking at budgetary matters and when the commanders in the field are making these requests, do you look at the effort made by the host country?

The growth of government is breathtaking in this country. I urge my colleagues to think about this and support the Murkowski resolution.

I support this resolution. While cap-and-trade legislation has stalled in the Senate, the administration is pursuing a backdoor approach to implement new regulations. The EPA's use of the Clean Air Act as a vehicle to expand its authority…

I am very concerned about this obvious pressure to allow collective bargaining by TSA employees. I am adamantly against that.

We need to make sure that we're doing everything to secure our ports, our trains, all of the buses.

I think that it is a good agency, in the main.

I rise to speak today in favor of the McCain amendment and the Cornyn amendment. I am cosponsor of both of these amendments. The border State Senators have worked together, particularly in light of the escalating violence that is happening…

the Hutchison-Hagan motion to instruct is trying to narrow the definition that falls under the Volcker rule and the underlying bill. I believe our amendment would have passed overwhelmingly if we had been able to get it up before cloture…

Equally alarming is the fact that women are the fastest-growing group of homeless veterans.

Opening Statement of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison

That tells me we must work to address this problem now before it gets worse.

This is an amendment that will provide a permanent exemption for publicly traded small businesses with less than $150 million from the costly reporting requirements mandated by section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In removing this…

this editorial that appeared in the Wall Street Journal today says we can have a stimulus that will cost taxpayers nothing by freeing our small businesses and especially our entrepreneurial and high-tech businesses from the burdens of all…

The hearing highlighted failures on the part of both Toyota and NHTSA, and suggested that additional action may be needed by Congress.

Thank you for providing this opportunity to hear testimony about S. 3302, the Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010.

Toyota's recall of more than six million vehicles... has renewed this committee's attention and commitment to improving vehicle safety.

Over the past 5 years the Federal Trade Commission has filed over 100 actions against providers of financial services, and in the past 10 years the Commission has obtained nearly $1/2 billion in redress for consumers of financial services…

There is a naturally occurring oil seepage into the Gulf of Mexico.

If they are impacted by the oil spill, down the road, can NOAA do anything that would help in restoration of the wetlands?

Ma'am, the way I've been characterizing this, I think BP has been relentless in their responsibilities, but we've been relentless in our oversight.