We do not feel that a foreign corporation has any right to take our land for their private use and gain, especially when there has been no determination that this project is in the national interest.

The Justice Department's Antitrust Division has raised concerns that new top-level domains could, quote, 'impose substantial additional domain registration costs on many consumers.'

I am primarily interested in hearing Mr. Pritz explain the benefits of expanding the number of top-level domain names.

Nobody is asking you questions, so I am going to step up to the plate.

Others are concerned that an increase in the number of top-level domains will exacerbate the potential for abuse of the domain name system.

The Department of Commerce was troubled that ICANN was moving forward with the gTLD expansion without having proven that the benefits of expansion outweighed the costs.

He authored an amendment to the State Department authorization bill that reaffirms our commitment to end malaria deaths by 2015.

The point of this is to avoid the politics and get to the jobs.

I urge Congress to put the long-term interests of the American people as a top priority and not rush to build the Keystone pipeline.

It's more important than ever that we get the maximum benefits from every taxpayer dollar.

We cannot afford to waste taxpayer dollars intended for struggling families.

I look forward to learning more about your audit work on the SNAP program and the Department's use of information technology.

My constituents and I--and discussions with many of our political leaders throughout the State--firmly believe that the Corps of Engineers must return to their basic principles and purpose of the dam system along the Missouri River, which…

I saw for myself the devastation caused by the flooding along the Missouri.

I believe the answers to these issues will come from a partnership between Federal and non-Federal public entities.

Let's get back to the Corps' roots and initial purposes here, and control the floods.

I am sorry, but you can't have eight different items, many of which are in conflict with each other, as your priorities.

Thank you for holding this important hearing to examine the impacts of this Missouri flood.