I fear that the defense budget will become a fashionable target for cuts, thereby creating some real peril for our country.
You want a configuration of ships and operational concepts that vindicate that mission.
Security is the pre-condition to liberty and prosperity.
I think that perhaps the most important contribution of the panel will have been to highlight the need for continued, sustained, strong defe...
I think absent an assessment of the foreign language needs and the foreign language capabilities, it is difficult to say what impact the For...
It is a subject matter that historically some of my strongest--when I wrote the first child care development block grant program back in the...
Thank you very much, Senator. I appreciate your emphasis on the tobacco issues.
I asked him the other day to comment, if he would, based on his expertise and his own doctoral studies, about the impacts of long-term unemp...
Well, thank you. That is obviously up for reauthorization. We are trying to get that done now in the next few weeks before we adjourn.
We have authored some legislation over the years to try and provide leave from work for parents.
I think if a teacher can see where a child lives and the circumstances in which they live, that is a very different relationship.
Over the last 36 years, you have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to developing policies that promote children's healthy development a...
I cannot really get to that point unless I get more data on how we are doing with the present law.
In fact, Lamar Alexander and I wrote the Preemie Act in 2006 to combat the increasing rates of preterm and low-birth weight children.
I should express my gratitude. They did increase some funding. By the way, they did it for Head Start as well and the child care development...
I certainly know of no studies that suggested increasing inequality is helpful to the well-being of children.
Thank you very much, Doctor, and I thank all of you for your work, your dedication to these issues, and the efforts you are making today to ...
I do not like to see us competing because I think the extended day idea has a great value.