I applaud President Obama for including level funding in his fiscal year 2011 budget for this program at $49.3 million.
I urge you to provide stroke research with a significant funding increase.
Thank you Chairman Harkin and Senator Cochran for the opportunity to support funding for public broadcasting.
We are borrowing too much from our kids and grandkids. We have a terrible deficit problem, debt problem.
AACC urges enactment of legislation containing an 'Education Jobs Fund,' as in the legislation introduced today by Senator Harkin.
Congress appropriated $150.4 billion for national research and development.
The road to economic stability and prosperity for Iowa and our Nation runs through our public schools.
Reducing healthcare fraud and abuse has been a priority of mine for many years.
I first want to start by commending you for the outstanding work you're doing to help enact healthcare reform.
Overall, I think the President's budget is a good start.
I think we have to keep that activated, some way.
As a matter of fact, one other area that I've been a long-time supporter of is early childhood programs.
I'm wondering about that 6-month gap.
Thank you very much. And I just personally want to thank you, Senator Reed, for your leadership in this area.
I suggested, modestly, a year or two ago that perhaps what we ought to do on the Federal level is provide a free flu shot to every person in...
But the key seems to be whether the services are indeed high quality.
So we have to make sure that the quality of early childhood programs is consistently high.
That's pretty serious. And it costs a lot of money.
