today I am submitting a resolution with Senator Portman designating February as Career and Technical Education month. The key to America's continued success lies in improving our Nation's educational system. In a National Association of…

I just have to say, I could not disagree more.

We're saying we are pivoting to Asia, but, by all intents, China's pivoting to the Americas, and we are losing influence in a region where we shouldn't be.

I've been discouraged in visits to Honduras.

I am opposed to sequestration. One of the first votes I casted when I arrived here was to not let sequestration go into effect in February 2013.

I have worked on the Senate Budget Committee with my colleagues to provide as much sequester relief as we could find in 2014 and 2015, and I am going to keep doing it.

As a U.S. Senator, I supported such proposals. It was the right thing to do at the time.

You could certainly understand these partners, who are some of our most loyal partners, who most want to work with us, who have a close cultural connection with us, whose citizens often move to the United States--you could understand many…

There's a lot of deferred maintenance. I look at it as deferred maintenance issues, the kind you talk about.

There is no way we can do what we want if we accept the full sequester. Period, full stop.

There were some reports in February 2014, just recently, about Chinese People's Liberation Army in Shanghai and how they employ thousands of members specifically trained to conduct cyber attacks against critical infrastructure in the…

We should applaud the work of the 7th Fleet in assisting in trying to find the Air Malaysia flight.

Talk a little bit about the work that STRATCOM does in this ongoing effort to rid Syria of one of the largest chemical weapons stockpiles in the world.

I think it is important for folks to know that DOD is not coming here and saying, 'give us relief from the entirety of sequester.'

I hope we can dig into the years 2016 and out and have a budget that's driven by our strategy rather than to continue to have to try to adjust, carve, and cut our strategy to fit a budget that in my view is not one that appropriately…

There was not any dialogue among the region or among the neighbors.

If the proposals in the President's budget for fiscal year 2015 were enacted through fiscal year 2021, DOD would absorb over $700 billion (approximately 80 percent) of the original reduction of over $900 billion compared to the fiscal year…

The President's budget fulfills both of these promises to our servicemembers and their families by making several specific proposals.

I feel kind of isolated out on a wing. I hope I get out of the penalty box sometime.

Any reduction of the carrier force from 11 to 10 would not just be a matter of a budget line item, but it would also require a change in the statutory language.

I do not think a conflict or a crisis with China is inevitable. I do not think it is.

The 11-carrier Navy is a statutory requirement.

We'd much rather do business with you, because we feel the cultural connections are so strong and we have some suspicions of what Chinese intentions are.

I do not want to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, Mr. Chairman.

I just ask these questions to suggest, I think, most would say China is our 'principal competitor' in the next century.