It is indeed hard to believe in 2009, there's a necessity for having hearings such as this.
If you believe that the current distribution of assistance to firefighter grants is inequitable or should include volunteer fire departments...
It seems particularly unfair and counterproductive to the mission of EPA to consistently underfund such a critical and productive region.
Rape as a weapon of policy is completely--has always been completely unacceptable.
Mr. Chairman, thank you for your leadership of this subcommittee, and in the Senate, generally.
I wonder whether consideration can now be given to modifying an existing platform to provide these capabilities?
One of the priorities that has been announced by the Secretary of Defense for the Army would be to increase the number of helicopter units t...
How many total personnel will be needed to meet the shortfall of helicopter personnel?
That's good. Well, we wish you well, and we want to be sure that the bill that we recommend provides the funds that are needed to meet those...
We want to thank you, too, for the definition of your priorities, in terms of funding for programs and activities.
Australia has some great examples. Canada has some great examples.
Chairman Thompson, there is not a country in the world that looks exactly like ours, in the terms of make-up of the production, the producer...
Do you think a goal of 90% premise registration is attainable under our current voluntary process?
I would like to compliment you on this hearing, but I would also like to say it is coming back home.
It just seems to me that if you have one set of folks willing to write a big check to get out of this and another country with the best trai...
While we know that the most recent H1N1 incidents are in no way linked to the U.S. animal agriculture, the emergence of new viruses further ...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate your, again, holding this hearing.
We are fortunate to have the luxury of this hearing before something bad happens rather than examining this issue as a knee-jerk overreactio...
