It seems to me that that's something we ought to be looking at CDCP to be doing.

We have to focus on the mental health conditions again of our kids in schools and how by getting to that early on, ... you can solve a lot of our physical ailments in this country.

Prevention played a role in Iowa's reform.

in America we have a sick care system.

Iowans and all Americans may be able to find health care security.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will come to order.

Congress is poised to act.

We are very grateful to Senator Harkin for his leadership and foresight in working to change the focus of our system from 'a sick care system to a health care system.'

No matter how hard you try--you really have to try hard to be healthy in this country.

I lost that amendment. We're up in 2010 and I'm not going to lose it this time.

It ought to be easy. It ought to be one of the easiest things you do--to eat healthy, work healthy, play healthy, be healthy.

We've got to start thinking about that also; and fruits and vegetables in schools, which I've been pushing.

We have to reauthorize the child nutrition bill--that's the school lunch, the school breakfast, the WIC program--this year in the Agriculture Committee.

I have been an advocate for whistleblowers because I value candid, unfiltered information they provide to Congress.

I have no personal problem with a pardon, but that you expected a howl from the Southern District.

If DOD's books cannot be audited, then the defense finance and accounting system is disjointed and broken.

no political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulation or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for 2 years.

I wish a President of the United States, previous and this one coming up, would have done that.