Christopher J. Dodd: “I congratulate the President-elect for making a very wise, wise choice.”

The point that Senator Sarbanes made, Senator Shelby has made, and others have made from the outset about the issue of confidence is the most critical issue for all of us here.

I think we should look at our choices. We can come down to where we allocate resources and how we make choices between the issue of tax cuts for the top 1 percent of income earners versus investing in a No Child Left Behind bill.

I think that this one that is very much on our mind now as we look at--as I said earlier, we are going to review the rules.

We need to ensure that research funding continues to grow to combat this disease.