This hearing will come back to order.

We do support the aspirations of Georgia to join NATO.

NATO remains especially relevant today in light of the serious threats posed by radical Islamic terrorism and Russian aggression.

I do appreciate the fact that they are on the path of actually reaching that 2 percent of GDP threshold for military spending, but they are not there yet.

I certainly want to wish you all the best. We want to be as supportive as possible.

I do not see any negatives in terms of U.S. interests for admitting Montenegro into NATO, only positives.

What we have seen in Montenegro is the political leaders from Russia expressing very publicly their views that Montenegro should not join NATO in somewhat menacing terms.

overregulation is the silent killer. It crushes innovation. It crushes small businesses.

would you rather have that $12,000 to $14,800 in your paycheck, feeding and providing for your family?

If you divide that 2 trillion dollars by the number of households in America, it translates to $14,800 per year, per household.

we have to look at the reasonableness of these regulations.

we need some common sense.

we need some regulations--no doubt about it--but they have to be reasonable.

When did the 3-year clock start? Because President Obama declared our goal of degrading and ultimately defeating ISIS 22 months ago.

Do you think then that we will have ISIS defeated, in other words, deny them the territory, deny them the safe havens even in Syria within another--basically you are saying about 14 months then if it is a 3-year game plan.

We are not moving anywhere to close to fast enough.

We are not doing this fast enough. Are we? We are poking the hive with the stick.

But my point being is until we actually defeat them--and again, we can nibble around the edges.

the chair's abuse of his unilateral subpoena power and explains how this decision to issue subpoenas to State attorneys general regarding their investigations of Exxon's alleged fraud regarding climate change is an illegitimate and…

The Pentagon has never been audited. It is enormous, it is this behemoth.

We cannot get an audit through. We have had very little cooperation in the Senate from people saying, 'Yes, we need transparency in government.'

I propose we ought to have a full permanent hearing on Social Security that meets all of the time just to address Social Security.

Television providers' customer satisfaction still exceeds that of Congress.

Nothing could be further from the truth. All work has value.

CBO, evaluating his proposal, thought it would cost somewhere between half a million and a million jobs.