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Barbara Mikulski
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Privatization of Social Security - Jan. 25, 2005
January 25, 2005
As the Dean of the Women Senators, I am here to speak for the Democratic women of the Senate, from whom you will be hearing much more in the weeks ahead. I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country. Women and working families need to know that they can rely on a guaranteed benefit. When you get old and when you are sick, there are not many things you can count on, but […]
Joni Ernst
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Questioning Ms. McMahon during SBA Confirmation Hearing - Jan. 24, 2017
January 24, 2017
ERNST: Thank you Mr. Chair, and thank you Ms. McMahon for being here today. I appreciate the time you took to sit down with me, and many other members of this committee. I want to say a special thank you as well to senators Blumenthal and Murphy for being here today. Because I think so many times we get caught up in partisanship that we forget that there are many issues that we are very passionate about that share a bipartisan nature. So I want to thank them as well […]
Heidi Heitkamp
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Questioning Linda McMahon at SBA Confirmation Hearing - Jan. 24, 2017
January 24, 2017
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for stopping by our subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management. It was all about small business and business advocacy, and the role that SBA plays it was a great discussion. We welcome you at any point, Linda, to our subcommittee. It's a great place for gathering of talking about cross section between small business and regulatory reform. I wish just for a minute you'd been able to turn around when you were speaking about the challenges you had and have seen the pride […]
Patty Murray
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Remarks in the Betsy DeVos Senate Confirmation Hearing - Jan. 17, 2017
January 17, 2017
I look forward to working with you and all of our colleagues in Congress. I want to welcome our new members on this committee. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you, Mrs. DeVos, for joining us today. Welcome to the rest of your family who has joined you as well. This is the first of many hearings we will be to the rest of your holding on President-elect Trump's nominee to fill critical positions in the federal government. I want to start by reiterating the importance of the Senate's […]
Nikki Haley
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement in Confirmation Hearing for the UN Ambassador - Jan. 18, 2017
January 18, 2017
Thank you, Mr. Chairman and thank you Senator Cardin for your comments. I look forward to discussing all of those things with you and the rest of the committee. I do have my family behind me because I’ve never been able to do anything without the support of my family. And so to my left I have my favorite younger brother, Gogi, who owns his own business and is an entrepreneur. I have my parents, Dr. And Mrs. Rendawa who reminded my brothers, my sisters and me how blessed we […]
Kelly Ayotte
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
In Support of Clark Veterans Cemetery Legislation - June 27, 2012
June 27, 2012
Thank you, Madam Chair and Ranking Member Burr, for convening this hearing today. I appreciate the opportunity to testify before this distinguished committee regarding the Remembering America's Forgotten Veterans Cemetery Act of 2012 (S. 2320), which Senator Begich and I introduced earlier this year, and which several members of this committee are cosponsoring. I would like to personally recognize and thank the members of this committee that are cosponsoring my bill, which are Senator Akaka, Senator Brown, Senator Isakson and Senator Wicker. From Normandy to Panama, America's veterans' cemeteries serve […]
Kelly Ayotte
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Online Sales Taxes - Aug 1, 2012
August 1, 2012
This proposal we discuss today is very critical to New Hampshire and to other states that have opted to not have a sales tax. I really want to welcome our colleagues who are here, all three of whom I have great respect for—Senator Durbin, Senator Enzi and Senator Alexander—so thank you very much for being here to personally introduce your bill. Under current Supreme Court precedent, in the absence of a sufficient nexus a state cannot reach beyond its borders to compel out-of-state vendors to collect taxes on a particular […]
Kelly Ayotte
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Pentagon Audit Readiness - April 18, 2012
April 18, 2012
Today's hearing drives at the heart of the fiscal crisis we face as a nation: how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars. We must closely scrutinize spending at every federal agency, including the Department of Defense, to identify and eliminate waste and duplication. However, as I've said in the past, we must ensure that budget cuts at the Department of Defense, do not undercut our warfighters or endanger our readiness for future contingencies. To distinguish between necessary budget cuts and cuts that would harm our troops and damage military readiness, […]
Joni Ernst
categories: Speeches, U.S. Senate Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Consider Alternatives to Iran Nuclear Agreement - Aug. 4, 2015
August 4, 2015
ERNST: Thank You, Mr. Chair. Gentlemen, thank you very much for being here today, this has been an enlightening discussion. I think it’s very good for all of us to participate and hear your areas of expertise. It has been brought up a couple times already today and I want to make it very clear a couple of you have affirmed this but I would like to ask each of you yes or no. Simple yes or no question then we can come back and talk a little bit more […]