Thank you so much for looking at this. What a nightmare this is. I spent 28 years managing a rural hospital, and what I see there, when I look at that chart is not the periodic table. I see bankruptcy for hospitals, physicians, health care…

Well, I thank my good friend. And I want to come back to one word I think that really describes what is suppressing jobs, what is killing jobs, what is keeping jobs from being created. And that is uncertainty. Uncertainty is the direct…

Thanks. We will submit some more questions for the record, but I do want to thank Chairman Dodd for this opportunity.

One is children's health insurance. Two is early learning. Three is nutrition and anti-hunger strategies, and fourth is just basic safety.

Few, if any, of U.S. Senators in the last 50 years have done more, have labored longer in the vineyard of helping children and standing up for their rights... than Senator Chris Dodd.

Well, I know in our discussions yesterday, Senator Dodd and Senator Harkin and I were wrestling with, among others, these kinds of questions.

We are especially grateful he called this series of hearings to examine a set of issues that candidly, even in the party I am a member of, we do not spend enough time on.

Because of your hard work in the passage of the act, there are several deliverables on national strategies that I think you will be very proud of.

Though children make up a quarter of our population, out of every dollar spent by the Federal Government, less than a dime goes to children.

the substance of your testimony today individually and cumulatively is very helpful because too often what happens in Washington is that you have a lot of bills...

Can we consult you, though, for free?

As we chart our way out of the recession, it is essential that we reassess our priorities as they relate to children.

the first recommendation they made to improve the number of 25- to 34-year-olds who have an associates degree or higher--recommendation No. 1 was to make preschool education available to all.

Mr. President, I have sought recognition to continue the discussion of the erosion of the very important principle of separation of powers. Our Constitution was devised with three branches: article I, the Congress; article II, the…

I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, while I support the overall intent of H.R. 5730, it appears that this bill also moves a political agenda, and, therefore, I rise in opposition. Section 3 of the bill includes a repeal of…

Madam Speaker, this week 20 years ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990. To many of us, the ADA involved simple, tangible things like curb cuts, automatic doors, Braille…

Madam Speaker, I am here today to speak about an incredible opportunity which is in the northeastern part of the United States, and that is the Marcellus shale natural gas. The Marcellus shale describes a natural gas play in Pennsylvania…

I was complaining about President Bush's language as it relates to our objectives in Iraq.