I want to thank you for holding this hearing on H.R. 31 and H.R. 1385.
I can say to my colleagues, Governor Locke, is the right man for this job.
There are incredible opportunities for U.S. technology, and U.S. jobs here at home.
Climate change, environmental protection knows no borders.
If we allow overfishing to continue, there will be no fishing left for them or for future generations, and it will completely end the fishin...
I think there is an enormous surge of public commitment, national service. We are going to pass a national service bill.
What do you think that the Department of Commerce should be doing in this effort?
In December, I sent a letter to the National Guard Bureau signed by all the members of the Washington State Congressional delegation request...
Could you get back to me on that? It was one of our huge questions 1 year ago; making sure that people were registered and we were tracking ...
I thought we were all going to go to the same system.
The Reserves and particularly the National Guard have some unique concerns when they're deployed.
I find the trend very disturbing because these crimes are happening at all.
I think that the worst thing we can do is to not talk about it.
I wanted to personally thank all of you and everyone you oversee for the tremendous work that they do.
I'm worried about compassion fatigue with our nurses, and I know that's a recruiting issue, and a retention issue.
So am I for big-time Youth Challenge? Absolutely.
We are following it and hoping that we can keep it going as long as we have kids out there who need a second chance.
the Army's deployment schedule and adequate care of both soldiers and their families is very important to me.
