I want to commend you for your work on your Rivers Initiative.
Fannie and Freddie were a core part of what went wrong in our system.
I am concerned however with the proposed cuts to the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium, the Emergency Operations Centers and the inc...
Without this chairman, I am not sure where we would be.
The FRC project is critical to replacing the Coast Guard's fleet of 110-foot Island Class patrol boats.
We believe, because of your quick work with Secretary Clinton, that all of those adoptions will be processed within the next 30 days.
The fiscal year 2011 budget request for the Department will bolster emergency preparedness and support disaster recovery.
Are you confident that the money that is in the President's budget request, which is I think $1.95 billion for fiscal year 2011, and the add...
I want to communicate how many local elected officials have said, you know, they may not rule for us, but please tell the Secretary at least...
The Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) will provide the Coast Guard with a new generation of patrol boats.
It is extremely cost effective and it is helping us train our first responders actually in the communities where they live.
I would just suggest, Mr. Chairman, the members of our subcommittee, that as we look out into the reconstruction of Haiti, that helping the ...
Just because people can't appreciate that doesn't necessarily mean that it's not the right thing.
This agency should operate in the most transparent, accountable way possible.
If we are not trying to coordinate, is there a country in the world that is tasked with coordinating...
If you just took 50 percent of the estimated orphans, that would be roughly 70 million children.
I think it's just critical, which brings me to my questions about Haiti.
this budget, canceling every major internal human spaceflight program in sight--most obviously, Constellation--extends their gap, as I said,...