A child should be provided with the opportunity to make sure they have enough to eat and basic nutrition.

We have to energize the will of the American people, with the support of our congressional leaders, to address the needs of young people.

if, at the end of the day, a family is as impoverished as they were at the beginning of the day, then we're not doing enough.

I've always thought that we should look at the challenges we face with regard to children in a very fundamental way, that every child in the country, no matter where they are, no matter where they're born, and no matter what circumstances…

It's the responsibility of every public official, whatever level of government you're elected to, to do everything you can to make sure that light inside that child reaches its full potential.

We have serious budget problems in the United States, but we don't have a severe budget crisis in the short run; we have a long-run budget crisis.

I want to thank the Chairman for his leadership on these issues all these years.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 45 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, I have sought recognition to comment on the way in which the Senate discharges its constitutionally assigned responsibility to consent to the appointment of Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States. With almost 30…

I just want to give people a sense of the--a little bit of a sense of the geography.

It was a positive signal, I thought, to send that we were serious about the relationship.

And I realize that a good bit of this you would have to speak of, or speak about, in a classified setting.

I don't want to create any illusion that this is a force that is going to rid the country of Hezbollah any time very soon.

I think that the Lebanese Government has been--I think that in a perfect world they would not want to do this.

If that changed inside Lebanon, I think a lot of the dynamics would change, too.

if we are seeking to see some curtailment of the threat that Hezbollah poses, the most potent terrorist organization next to al-Qaeda

I wanted to just follow up on that. I want to have each of our witnesses address this question.

some 4,000 rockets into Israel is a disturbing indication of what was taking place there.