The defense of our homeland is a top priority of our Nation, so I look forward to working with you.

I think the American people is hungering for leadership. The reason I ran for the Senate is because I believe we are bankrupting this Nation.

We want U.S. companies to do business in China. We want them to succeed in the global marketplace.

Overall, the U.S. economy has never really generated much more than about 18.8 percent of GDP in terms of revenue.

I will agree. Information is powerful as the free market enterprise system is pretty powerful as well.

I guess I agree with my colleagues that we are not seeing real leadership being presented by the President here and it is disappointing.

But don't you acknowledge the fact that taxpayers simply cannot reorganize their affairs quickly enough when you increase tax rates?

I believe this country hungers for leadership, and I certainly would be one willing to step up to the plate.

You know, oftentimes when I listen to these discussions, it is like we have an option not to compete.

since 1982, college tuition has increased 439 percent.

I agree with Senator Collins's call in September 2010 for OPM to change its calculation of Postal Service pension fund payments.

I think the challenge that we really have is to figure out how to make crop insurance work better

The 51 percent requirement is a political decision. It has nothing to do with the marketplace.

I'm profoundly disappointed, in fact angry, at the Bureau's budget for South Dakota projects in particular.

We think the bill is a good first step for agriculture, in that it does not attempt to regulate agriculture or to cap the emissions from our industry.

If EPA is put in charge of offsets and USDA does not have a significant role in the implementation of offsets, we will oppose that, as well.

We have argued that you could bring up the support prices that really serve as the safety net when times are tough.

The shallow-loss issue has been one that has vexed, I think, everyone for a long, long time.

[t]he Corps, through our pilot study, found no basis to claim that reverse auctioning provided any significant or marginal savings over a traditional contracting process for construction or construction services.