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?

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.

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…

Opening Statement of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison

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

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