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To those who provided testimony today, this is one of those topics that is extremely necessary to have a conversation on, but I'll just tell you personally for me, it's one of the most difficult.

Our families are not broken. Our communities are not broken. We need to come together.

Any objective review of history reveals that faith was a critical part of our founders and fundamentally important part of life in America.

Local civic groups and faith-based providers are best positions to provide aid and deliver it effectively.

More money alone will not solve domestic violence in our society.

We need to protect everyone, but realize that our women are the most vulnerable.

Domestic violence in any form is an evil that demands a strong response.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for convening this hearing regarding domestic violence.

The Rural Water Program is vitally important, I am sure, all across the country, not just in Idaho.

As a former State secretary, I know that State and locals know their communities much better than the Federal Government ever could. We have to have an effective partnership.

I just had to leave for a second from the hearing because we were doing a press conference on a bill that Senator Bennet and Representative Crow and I just introduced called the Outdoor Restoration Partnership Act, which will help restore…

You can do it a lot safer and a lot more environmentally friendly, as I have talked with some mining companies.

There is also a bipartisan bill that I am the lead cosponsor of called the REPLANT Act that been reintroduced in the House.

I am not for closing the doors to the courthouse, but we have to have some action against serial litigators.

We have worked in a bipartisan fashion, regardless of the chairman, over the last--as long as I have been on this committee now I guess for 20 years, 21 years.

We've already got laws on the books that address discrimination in the workplace.

When Congress considers a piece of legislation, I believe we should be absolutely clear about how the legislation would affect the American people.

The only parties likely to win if the bill is enacted into law are the trial lawyers.