"An appropriation bill would put funds in the correct appropriations and allow us to execute fiscal year 2013 in accordance with our original plan."
"Our bill is the Combatting Military Sexual Assault Act. It is aggressive and it is effective."
"Our Nation's shipbuilding plans cannot be carried out as planned with a fiscal year 2013 CR."
"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 mis..."
"We passed it after hearing over and over again that the Senate would not pass a budget. And we passed one."
"It is something I would like to work on."
"You are dealing with a Congress that will not give you a budget, that will not give you a number."
"That is why the Senate budget takes a measured and fair approach to completely replace the sequester with a balanced mix of revenue and spending cuts."
"But do we count that in our, you know, as we measure college graduation or as the international norms measure college completion and they rank us 14th in the world, are they measuring people who do no..."
"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."
"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."