This amendment basically says if you are an executive at one of the companies that received more than $5 billion in the TARP bailout, the financial bailout that occurred when we began our economic crisis, and if you receive in addition to…

I respectfully request, in the name of good governance and the proper functioning of our constitutional system, that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle allow a prompt vote on her nomination. Justice Kennan was voted out of…

I am one of those who believe it is critical that the United States accelerate its deployment of nuclear energy.

I can think of nothing more important to job creation than lots of low cost, clean, reliable nuclear energy.

What we're looking for here is an examination of the present law, what is the most damaging aspect of the present policy?

I do have a good deal of empathy for that area of Florida for the fact that they have lost ships due to retirement.

This is obviously quite an emotional issue, but it's also a legislative issue.

We cannot remain as a viable balancing force in the Pacific without these bases.

I don't believe, quite frankly, that the DOD budget should be sacrosanct when it comes to looking at the constraints and the examinations that we ought to be putting on different programs.

I made it very clear at that time that this survey was going to be vital in terms of evaluating whether we should move forward on this law.

That's not the military I grew up in. That's not the military you and I served in, Admiral.

it has come to my attention that three critical health and safety projects at Fort Monroe, VA, remain unfunded, in spite of the Army's plan to transfer ownership of that installation's property to the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2011.