You are dealing with a Congress that will not give you a budget, that will not give you a number.

Leaving the sequester in place would lead to massive, self-inflicted damage that would hurt middle-class families.

ensuring access to early childhood education has been a longstanding priority of mine

the average number of claim conditions for our recently separated servicemembers is now in the 12 to 16 range, roughly five times the number of disabilities claims by veterans of earlier eras.

Our colleague Senator McCain has called sequestration 'devastating' to our military.

These children and students did not cause the debt and deficit challenges we are focused on addressing, but under sequestration, they bear one of the largest impacts of this cut.

Our bill is the Combatting Military Sexual Assault Act. It is aggressive and it is effective.

This will ensure that no individual member of the chain of command can misuse their authority to deny justice and hurt the victim.

I am going to continue making sure the voices of the American people are heard loud and clear throughout this process.

You want Pell Grants? You want Stafford loans? Show us that you are doing things to control the costs.

Investments in education, from early childhood programs through college, are some of the smartest the Federal Government can make.

The sooner we lock into place a plan that gives confidence to the whole economy...

I do not understand why this is a time when one would want to reduce GDP by half a percent.

I want to especially thank Senator Ayotte for being such an outstanding partner on this and for all she has done to push this bill forward.

An essential part of any agreement will be asking the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations to pay their fair share.

We passed it after hearing over and over again that the Senate would not pass a budget. And we passed one.

Well, obviously, getting that system right is key.

That is why I believe very strongly that we should replace the sequester with a balanced package of responsible spending cuts and revenue from the wealthiest Americans.

I mean, I am just kind of stunned as I hear that we did not have a credible system for dealing electronically with veterans' claims until you started to do that work in 2009-10.

What will be the impact of aircraft carrier availability in the future?

if Congress were to pass a fiscal year 2013 omnibus appropriations bill, what positive impacts would we see to DOD's and overall readiness?

the House Republican budget took a very different approach. Their budget makes no attempt to replace sequestration in a balanced or fair way.

I certainly agree, we should all be working together to tackle our long-term budget challenges.

I hope Republicans are now prepared to tell us their ideas for a bipartisan path forward.

what effect would decisions such as delaying the deployment of the USS Truman and deferring the refueling and overhaul of the USS Lincoln have on the combatant commanders' ability to perform their missions?