This bill is important as to way to shine a light on the desperate situation for many survivors in our community and I support it.

Despite the country's transition to greater economic freedom, religious and political freedoms for Vietnamese citizens remain limited.

Would it be fair to say that when you look at the fact that we are at 25 percent spending, which is too high, higher than it was last time we balanced the budget, but revenue is too low, relative to that record, that we have to address…

Would it surprise you to learn that as a matter of fact the answer to that is they went down both years for the first time in the history of the program?

We need to highlight that kind of statistic more. We need to educate our colleagues around here that it aint all the same.

It is penny-wise and pound-foolish not to have highly skilled, highly trained managers of big, large contracts.

In your testimony, you talked about how the Affordable Health Care Act actually helped reduce Federal outlays and long term actually will contribute to deficit reduction.

We have to get out of this mindless narrative that all spending is the same and all spending is bad.

A silent movie won this year's Oscar for Best Picture. That award just as easily could have gone here to the House, because the House Republicans continue to be silent on job creation and seem intent on dragging America back to 1929 when…

If we could remove sort of the incendiary agendas on each side and actually just look at the merits, there would be a lot of common ground around here.

Again I find myself in agreement with Senator Coburn.

I think it is very important that we move beyond the mindless narrative that government is just big, bloated, and fat.

If we really are serious about debt reduction, here is a vehicle for trying to get at savings.

I might add for the record that I was in the private sector when, in order to get NAFTA to meet some arithmetic need, they found some current revenue...

I thank my colleague. I support the doc fix in this bill. I support the payroll tax cut extension in this bill. I support the extension of unemployment insurance to so many of our fellow Americans who have suffered in the Great Recession…

Countries around the world advance by emancipating civil society, not by suppressing it.

This is a panel designed... to embarrass the President of the United States.

Somebody within the fold of the Egyptian Government... decided consciously to pick a fight with the United States.

somebody made a decision consciously to do this. This was not an accident. They didn't stumble into it.

We do not view this situation as a legal matter involving rule of law, nor do 29 Egyptian organizations who issued a statement yesterday in Cairo.

I believe today's hearing is a sham.

I think this is a shameful exercise, and I am very sad you have chosen to participate and be used the way you are being used.

I thank my colleague. Mr. Chairman, oil companies are running a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign to approve the Keystone pipeline, a pipeline the owner itself says the price of oil in middle America to go up, not down. Here's what…

There's nothing more important to democracy than sunshine. This March among the most historic and momentous cases ever to come before the Supreme Court will be health care. Many Americans supported health care reform, many opposed it. It…

I think that is shameful.