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This extension will provide much-needed certainty to investors, which will make offshore wind an affordable, viable investment.

Someone who has worked their entire life should not retire in poverty.

I just want to point out that when the President proposed moving to a Chained CPI he also proposed increasing the minimum benefit.

I have always felt that when we look at Social Security reform we need to increase that minimum benefit.

The impunity has to stop. Those who have committed these gross human rights violations, and they're very well documented, need to be held to account.

High workload is not an excuse for the current situation which has gone on since 2009, and which simply must change.

The status quo is not acceptable.

That the Committee feels compelled to hold this hearing today should send a clear signal that the status quo is unacceptable.

I am hopeful that, working together, we can chart a new way forward.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:41 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, September 18, 2013, at 9:30 a.m…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for an excellent hearing.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

By 2015, the average age of an HIV patient will be 50.

I want to also thank you for holding this hearing to examine the many challenges associated with an HIV/AIDS population that is aging.

The face of AIDS in America is aging.

I think our position has been quite weak and the threat of using military force against Assad with resistance coming, strong resistance from the big core of this country and from Congress makes it difficult for the president.

The president has threatened the use of force but it has to be a credible military threat. The fact is there is underwhelming support from the Congress in the country for the use of force.

Secretary Kerry is not dealing with a strong hand, frankly. And I think the Russians are prepared to explode that.