there's never a stronger advocate for a child than the parent.

How do you plan to work with the schools in America to design the best policies that can lead to healthier environments for kids, like perhaps recess before lunch?

there's nothing worse than embarrassing anybody; they will never forgive you.

I applaud the First Lady's efforts to raise obesity awareness.

I was a speaker at Buffalo High School graduation, and the thing that really struck me was, out of all of the graduates there, there were none that were obese.

Well, I appreciate the work that both you and Dr. Hassink are doing.

I hope we can continue to call on you as we move forward.

Unfortunately, the Federal Government does not have a great track record in implementing programs that actually modify people's behaviors.

maybe we ought to think about pulling you in on this Elementary and Secondary Education Act to start thinking about what needs to be done in our elementary schools to get more health education, more exercise, things like that for kids.

I think it is a good program. ... it makes a tremendous impact, and particularly when leaders like you are involved in it.

I hope we can give a little bit of concentration to how we get the rubber to meet the road.

I really don't think that we celebrate, enough, the average child doing something physical.

It seems that the right hand is not talking to the left hand, and there are new regulations that seem to me to be burdensome, duplicative.

I remain concerned, and you and I have talked about this, by the administration's--what appears to be a war against American oil and natural gas production.

Mr. Claus, The Tongass used to produce about 450 million board feet of timber a year, but last year produced less than 30 million board feet from federal lands.

I believe that if we ever get this reauthorized, there will be more funding.

We are all working on the healthcare problem.

We really need to do something in this area, that we need to get rid of the silos, build in some flexibility, and there needs to be increased funding.