So their future does not look as bright as yours does as the result of your having this opportunity.

I want to reinforce what the Chairman said.

I do not know how anyone who looks at the evidence and hears the testimony we have heard today could vote otherwise than to extend this important program.

I also join the Chairman in welcoming David Heyman as the nominee to be the Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security.

Today's hearing on the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program allows the Committee to consider the merits of a program that has provided additional educational options for some of our Nation's most at-risk children.

The bill also provides improved protection to our forces against the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices.

The United States stands ready to work with the international community to support the people of Sri Lanka in this time of suffering.

Any abuse of detainees is unacceptable.

These are the principles to which I'm committed.

Tens of thousands of innocent civilians are trapped between the warring Government forces and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.

None of us can afford to be complacent.

Our health care system is broken.

This humanitarian crisis could turn into a catastrophe.

We are not going to rest until we've delivered the kind of health care reform that's going to bring down costs for families.

We have a humanitarian crisis that's taking place in Sri Lanka.

You too cannot rest on your laurels.

The Government should stop the indiscriminate shelling that has taken hundreds of innocent lives.

You have no excuses not to change the world.