Mike Lee

I think there is a pretty broad consensus among Republicans and Democrats in both Houses of Congress that a simplified approach to the Tax Code would be better.

The importance of maintaining our Nation's credibility in deficit reduction packages.

Experience in this area and in others has taught us that we cannot fix all of society's ills through legislation.

Whenever we enact laws, it is those people whose liberty is diminished.

I do not think there is a person here in this room, I do not think there is anyone watching on television these proceedings who does not want to find a way to end or at least diminish incidents of gun violence.

Thank you, Madam Secretary. My time has expired.

But my question is----

I agree with you, there certainly are elements of that statement that enjoy broad bipartisan support.

I think we have a real historic opportunity here to make some meaningful progress in areas where there is common sense.

We are the world's talent, that we want to be a country that makes stuff, invents things, exports to the world, and to do that we need to access the world's talent.

I will be introducing the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act which would remove the per country caps on employment-sponsored visas.

One of the issues here is that when you look at Americans past, something like 30 percent of U.S. Nobel laureates were born in other countries.

I was troubled by the issuance of those memoranda in some respects, and I remain troubled by their implementation.

Secretary Carter, why did you wait until after sequestration was scheduled to kick in to ask each defense component to report proposed actions and implementation plans?

Do you acknowledge that budget sequestration is current law?

But we didn't know. We didn't know. What we did know was that a lot of people were still unaccounted for.

Why didn't they move forward to Benghazi?

Okay, and yet it took another 23 days, as I understand it, to secure the compound after the attack had completed, had ended.

It isn't possible for you to be all things to all people.

So was that decision revisited hours later when in the early hours of the morning Benghazi time another pretty considerable attack came about?

Secretary Wright, how are these differences explained to commanders in the military, and do you believe it is consistently applied?

Secretary Wright, what do you understand to be the difference between evangelizing, which is allowed by DOD, and proselytizing, which is not allowed?

The practice of faith should never be restricted by the personal viewpoints of others.

I'm also worried about all of the related decisions, the military construction actions that have to be taken.

I was disappointed in the multiple delays in the decision.