I will not take any time to discuss policy because we will have a chance to review the testimony of all the witnesses.
It is essential that we honor the President's promise to restore more openness and accountability to Government.
I am honored to be able to turn over the gavel this morning to Senator Lincoln.
FOIA is an indispensable tool in protecting the people's right to know.
I especially want to think Saxby Chambliss for a great working relationship, both personally and among our staff.
I have been honored to chair this Committee and I have been honored to be on it for 25 years now.
I have to leave to go chair my committee.
It would continue a program that began in 2005 to provide moneys for sidewalk improvements, for bikeways, for traffic calming along access r...
And I thank the witness for his testimony here.
If the PATRIOT Act has saved at this point hypothetically but uncountable American lives.
I know Chairman Durbin still has some concerns on this issue.
I am very concerned with this provision striking the existing provisions and have been working to determine who authored it.
Well, for the taxpayers' benefit, I think that they would expect agencies within the same Federal Government working for the same American p...
I might note that 93 percent of the 216 students are now assigned to attend a DC Public School that is designated as in need of improvement.
I support these provisions and we have included them in the reauthorization bill I recently introduced with Senators Collins, Feinstein, Byr...
I firmly believe this subcommittee should continue to fund the full District reform effort, including the OSP program.
We must redress this situation.
We want to ensure that we don't enact provisions that would cause some of the best schools to drop out of the program.
