I'm confident that in short order Congress can pass a strong and bipartisan extension of CHIP that will last for many years.

CHIP is a critical part of our country's health-care infrastructure.

I ask you to extend funding for CHIP with the enhanced match rate for the next 5 years.

CHIP was needed to help many families make that transition.

My amendment would protect the National School Lunch Act's current prohibition against discrimination or overt identification of any pupil for their inability to pay for their school lunches, a practice called lunch shaming. Mr. Chair, I…

Twenty years ago, Senator Ted Kennedy and I came together to create the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP.

I wish to speak on the importance of maintaining a strong Food and Drug Administration. Today we approved the user fee reauthorizations for the FDA. We have done the important work of passing these essential user fee agreements out of the…

I agree with the distinguished Senator from Texas. I thought his remarks were very much on point and very good. ____________________

I rise today to speak on a policy matter that has been generating substantial attention recently, and that is modern antitrust law. This issue is critical. In the perennial debate over the proper role of government in economic affairs, it…

last week, I joined the Senate majority leader, the Speaker of the House, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Treasury Secretary, and the Director of the National Economic Council in issuing a joint statement on tax…

They are absolutely essential for the positions under review today.

I would like to extend a warm welcome to each of the nominees here today.

This will be critical over the next few months.

If confirmed, Mr. Kaplan will need to be a strong advocate for American exporters.

I think this ought to be examined, because beyond its use in wildfire prevention this also carries other benefits with it as well.

Timber harvesting is part of that?

It will be critical that the Department of Commerce work with Congress.

I represent a generation of lawmakers brought up on the principles of bipartisanship and compromise, and I believe these very virtues are the key to my success as a legislator. By putting these principles in practice as chairman of the…