"I urge the committee to fully support the U.S. Commercial Service."
"We also know that housing authorities in my district are making decisions now about which folks do not get vouchers, making the waiting lists longer because of the impact of the sequester."
"I just want to point out the irony, Administrator, that if you did have a line item of waste, fraud, and abuse of $627 million, under the sequester rules you could only cut that 8 to 10 percent."
"I want to praise Administrator Huerta and his staff for efforts to extend occupational safety and health protections to flight attendants in their high-altitude workplace."
"I didn't vote for the FAA authorization bill, because it amended the Railway Labor Act in a way that I believe will--is harmful to the right of workers to organize and to collectively bargain."
"our success in this country when it comes to infrastructure doesn't happen by accident, it happens on purpose."
"I want to spend the money where we get the best return on investment."
"I think it is just a waste of our resources to try to do it."
"The bipartisan Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism (WMD Commission) determined in December 2008 that WMD terrorism is a continuing and..."
"the impact of sequestration on the Coast Guard's ability to maintain its legacy assets"
"With regards to container screening in the SAFE Port Act, we required 100 percent screening of containers entering the U.S. earlier this year, but Secretary Napolitano deferred meeting this requiremen..."