If you want to know about the devastation of a nation, these are the innocent Somalis who are fleeing a famine that is the worst famine in the history of Africa at this point.

The difficulty with these hearings is it may provide information, but it may provoke unnecessarily individual communities that are trying to do their best.

I would like to put this into the record.

a Constitution is intended to endure for ages to come and consequently to be adapted for the various crises of human affairs.

But here is an individual attempting to undermine the protections that are given to women.

I abhor an uneven playing field. I think it is just ludicrous.

One slip-up can cause a loss of life, and I think this is a process of security that we should continue our oversight on.

I want to complement you for caring for the mission of this subcommittee and the mission of this full committee.

I think it is important when the agency itself constructively looks back what maybe, if you will, a regulation that has been utilized sufficiently and there is stark and non-debatable evidence that we don't need to move in that direction…

One of the major benefits is to be able to keep these technologies here, keep the innovation here in the U.S., manufacture the technologies here, and create jobs here.

But jobs could grow every year. You can see jobs growing every year with technology inventions.

There is nothing more important to the competitiveness of this Nation than a qualified workforce.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday we learned that the Federal deficit for the month of February was $223 billion, more than the total yearly deficit in 2007. Yet Republicans have been labeled as irresponsible for looking to cut a mere $61 billion…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to a period of morning business until 3:30 p.m., with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 4, the Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011. This legislation would repeal one of many burdensome requirements being imposed on Americans, especially the job…

I would almost say that we are all working to put ourselves out of business, but we realize the challenges that we are facing.

I hope that we can work against H.R. 1--at least, I want to work against it in terms of those potential cuts.

I am concerned as I notice the H.R. 1, and I just jumped from your fiscal year 2012 budget to H.R. 1 and saw that you would actually lose under this budget some 50 percent in technology and tactical communications, for border security.