We need to deal with asbestos, for goodness sake. We need to ban asbestos.
I must confess I find the timing of this hearing particularly strange.
So the real question before us is whether we are looking to lift more people out of poverty, or are we more concerned wi...
We will not win the War on Poverty by adopting budget proposals that reverse the modest gains we have made.
It simply adds insult to injury to pretend that deep cuts to food and nutrition programs... will somehow, quote, 'streng...
That budget, the Republican budget, cuts $810 billion from the base funding from Medicaid, $810 billion.
It is a budget that showers large new tax breaks on the wealthiest in this country while hurting the middle class.
the proposal that our Republican colleagues in the House have made is that we would, relative to today's sequester, we w...
The good news about the Helsinki framework is that it is not that intimidating because it is a consensus group.
I appreciate that EPA is continuing its investigations of hydraulic fracturing. I think that the EPA's investigations ar...
There are these moments when countries like Myanmar or Namibia or Nepal change governments and things happen, where sham...
I think the second thing is the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
We expect to see whether that can be done, either formally or informally.
I think having a Senate hearing on this topic would be magnificent and would open up not only the crisis, but also the o...
I think it would be helpful if you could perhaps give us help as to what should be on our wish list as they manage the r...
I believe the United States ought to focus significantly on the fundamentals of good governance.
When nations want to take on leadership responsibility within regional organizations, they need to be a model in using t...
It is a complicated group. When you are in each country they have different priorities, but I think they share a lot in ...