"I am concerned about COLA."
"We are trying to move as quickly as we can to confirm people so that we can all get back to work and begin to do some things for our country."
"We must not let that happen again."
"I want to extend a special welcome to the nominees and your families that are here."
"I look forward to working with you and members of your staff to try and figure out ways to leverage as many dollars as possible."
"I opposed the creation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), and I continue to have concerns with it."
"I actually look forward to working with my colleague, Sandy, here because it is going to be together that we work out the final financing to allow permanent supportive housing to go forward."
"A strong public education system is a cornerstone of a healthy and prosperous society."
"I look forward to working with you to help increase access to mainstream financial institutions."
"it is Congress's responsibility to provide support for the much harder job of reforming a failing public school system."
"the answer to public school reform cannot be diverting public funds to private school education."
"I would very much look forward to working with you on this important issue."
"I am pleased that the Department is requesting an increase of $60 million for Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grants."
"I am a strong advocate for greater protection of personal privacy by the government"
"The Federal Government must attract and hire employees at all levels of experience."
"I hope that you all have had a chance to review S. 736, the Federal Hiring Process Improvement Act, which Senator Voinovich and I introduced."
"All of us would agree it is critically important."
"Thank you very much, Senator Burris."
