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For far too long, the sacrifices of American World War I veterans have gone unrecognized on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

I think the reason that the President and Members of Congress on both sides and the American people are willing to commit to this mission, to this effort, is because they have such a high level of confidence in your leadership.

Last night, the President said that we will support efforts by the Afghan Government to open the door to those Taliban who abandon violence.

It seems to me, at least, that, you know, when you start sort of veering into these other areas, and people now are describing the TARP program as a political slush fund, and taxpayers are--they did not like it in the first place. They…

Our interest in this piece of this at this Committee, of course, is CFTC, and with regard to the markets, I represent agricultural producers.

I hope so. That is one of the questions I get probably more than anything else from constituents that I represent, is this issue of too big to fail.

Corn farmers, soybean farmers, all want to manage their risk, and what they need to know is that they are going to have markets that are fair, transparent, effective, not manipulated by speculators.

We hope that the Senate will promptly ratify a START Follow-on Treaty.

The Obama administration will make every effort to conclude the Treaty before the expiration of the START Treaty in December 2009.

I think we need to understand the scope of the impact that that kind of a treaty could have on our defense and U.S. defense programs.

It is clear that the ground-based missile defense system and the U.S. missile defense system proposed for Europe require challenging and realistic testing before Congress and the Administration can determine if those systems can be…

I want to compliment you on the good judgment you exercised during the BRAC process.

I think the whole focus of this debate has got to be how do we figure out the right way, the balanced way to constrain some of the risk.

LIUNA supports the extraordinary work being done by both Chairwoman Boxer and Senator Kerry and this committee.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding today's hearing on the important highway safety issue of Distracted Driving.

Let me begin by commending Secretary LaHood for holding the recent summit on distracted driving.

But accident statistics show it is time to stop multi-tasking and time to give complete attention to our driving.

I believe in a low carbon future. We are making strides in South Dakota, and I am hopeful that we can improve this bill so that it moves us farther down the field in the right way.