I thank the chairman for allowing me to ask a question. I want to know because I have only been here 2-plus years. But it seems to me that actually, from my perspective--this is my perspective--this committee has worked in a pretty…

My opinion is that drug courts work and do save society money.

I think it would be defying common sense to think that a judge's life experience does not inform how he or she judges.

I think it is just unrealistic to think that a judge's personal experience does not in some way... inform his or her judgment.

And Dr. Kutcher, the Academy of Neurology headquarters based in Minnesota, we are proud of the work of the Neurology Association in our state.

I think people were kind of shocked a few weeks ago, months ago, when that one worker working on the power grid--was that in Arizona?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Madam Secretary, for being here and for the work that you are doing every single day.

I do think more has to be done to protect the power grid and what should our priorities be there, and I am looking at this from a cybersecurity issue.

this has got to be a public-private partnership.

we do not want to change your security, but we really believe...that you can process these faster.

It's crucial that we work together to find solutions.

I plan to introduce legislation called the Home Care Consumer Bill of Rights.

We're really talking about the most vulnerable Americans now at a very vulnerable age.

The last thing we want to do is undermine these systems and, particularly, ask the most vulnerable to pay for it.

I think it's really especially important at this time to maintain Social Security benefits, not only at their level but to use the COLA to increase them.

the Affordable Care Act is closing the donut hole, which I think is very important to do and I think a repeal of the Affordable Care Act just in that alone would be disastrous.

As you get older, you get more and more reliant on Social Security.