"I would hope... that we will change the rules as they are currently constituted."
"the role of the State itself in terms of the decommissioning process... the States do not have any significant role"
"Reducing the harmful effects of sequestration cuts should be a top priority to ensure the Nation's security and military readiness."
"The Association believes that retired benefits and pay have been earned through 20 or more years of arduous military service."
"The budget agreement goes outside the so-called 'regular order' and bypassed this distinguished committee."
"FRA supports an amendment to repeal the COLA cut for all retirees under age 62."
"Does anybody think it makes moral or economic sense that one family, the Walton family, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people?"
"There should be no debate at all over extending unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed."
"42 percent of Americans' kids born into poverty will never get out of poverty."
"Raising the minimum wage it seems to me is critical."
"The reality that we are seeing today is that the middle class in this country is disappearing."