I want to follow up, if I can, on one of the questions that Senator Brown was asking.
Rhode Island has 10 percent asthma.
I just want to make sure that we do not continue to have our incentives maybe misaligned, that we actually do a better job of saying we are ...
You can go to the scientific community, and they are appalled that we haven't taken action more readily, because the scientific record is so...
We are taking a huge bet on what happens to our species and to our planet.
I don't think there is any responsible debate about that point.
The purpose is to try to make sure that the men and women that are serving our country are getting the best deal that they can, a fair deal,...
I think it behooves us as, as you said, taking care of the taxpayers' dollar, to find out where that money is going.
It strikes me as strange, if that is the way it breaks out, $360 million on tuition assistance payments for distance learning courses.
That seems strange---- especially in a climate where we know that the product that is being delivered, the education that is being delivered...
I think it is important to keep those goals in mind.
The Deficit Commission... has provided us with a road map out of this morass, reducing the cumulative deficits of our Federal Government ove...
If we want to reward success, how should we be measuring success and this Tuition Assistance Program?
Senator Webb was really the driver in the new G.I. Bill, the most generous G.I. Bill we have ever seen in the history of our country.
I am pleased to see that the GAO investigation... has helped to spur the Department of Defense and the Department of Education to begin a be...
Sometimes, I think maybe, we have our incentives misaligned, and rather than incentivizing not just churning more people through the door, s...
Good. Do we have to wait until this fall before we can be better informed what is going on at the Department of Defense?
I would urge you to do that.