Tim Kaine

So I think using those--the funds that I asked about earlier to expand the submarine supply base is important.

Well, and I would just say, it turned out to be just what my community needed.

the Vice President of the United States just recently said infrastructure loans to governments across the Indo-Pacific too often come with strings attached and lead to staggering debt.

There's different ways to have both at the same time. You could face separate challenges from each at the same time, or you could face some form of coordinated challenge.

Actually, we will submit that for the record.

The idea of trying to do a ship repair plan over the same time horizon you are doing new construction makes perfect sense.

There are good ideas out there if you are trying to do a 30-year ship repair plan, and all the good ideas are not necessarily all ours.

Today, I am pleased to join my colleague from Utah, Senator Orrin Hatch, to introduce the Fair Housing Improvement Act of 2018. This legislation would advance our nation in its long pursuit of achieving equal protection under the law and…

I look forward to working with you.

I luckily inherited the office that Senator McCain had for about 20 years.

Look, we will continue to have robust debates about climate change, but climate change is having an effect on installations.

I am looking forward to this hearing today.

I think that what we are going to hear is that you made some real headway in addressing those shortages.

I have found that steel tariffs have increased military construction (MILCON) prices significantly in some instances by about 30 percent.

I indicated in my opening comment that I am worried about how we are planning on the readiness side with respect to infrastructure.

I also rise to speak on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. When he was nominated to fill the vacancy occasioned by the retirement of Justice Kennedy, I immediately began to read all I could about his record. I…

We cannot teach students if they are not there with us.

I would hope that you might each take a minute, if you would, and tell me in your states just what you are trying to do to review and utilize data on school discipline to make sure that we are not penalizing historically underserved…

Well, if they're not allowed to be done, then you're not going to have the data.

So even within your own pro-transparency network, you're not aware when you're treating patients whether they are being treated equally with respect to the cost that they are being charged or what the medical professionals are receiving…

We have to fight the culture, right?

Price transparency is really important for physicians.

So while not every hip replacement should be performed in an ambulatory service center---- you would take the position that CMS should not bar them from being performed.

But I guess the gist of your testimony must be that the only reason people would pay cash is it's a discount.

I think you said that about 10 percent of the procedures were cash payments. Is that right?