if we don't know what we are doing here in Syria, which is now we are in the third year, it is really an indictment of, to some extent, the administration, to some extent, frankly, the leadership of the CIA.

I am struck by the silence of the world at large and wondering if they are showing good judgment.

my worry here--and I think we should all be concerned about this--is that as they look at us and try to figure out where we are and that region tries to figure out where we are, we are not really clear exactly ourselves.

I certainly appreciate that.

It does not make sense when you think about the requirements and the needs that self-employed business people have.

I believe one of the most important things we could do here in Washington is to come up with a long-term budget agreement that does provide some certainty for folks and that does include tax reform as part of that.

I look forward to New Hampshire not being 50th on the rate of return for our E-Rate contributions.

This issue of fairness is very important to me, in terms of not only how the funding formula is used, but also access: access for smaller states.

If somebody can spend a day filling out paperwork and get $20,000 for their school district or their library, it's just a--it's just a no-brainer.

New Hampshire happens to rank 50th out of 50, in terms of what we get on our return for the E-Rate Program.

Ninety-three percent (93%) of teens age 12-17 utilize the Internet and 97 percent of teens of the same age participate in some form of online gaming making them attractive targets for gambling marketing as well as illegal and fraudulent…

So what happens to a state like mine where recently our State legislature made a policy decision that they did not want to expand gambling to have, for example, casinos in the state.

I mean, this is a situation where we have got not only potential for money laundering, but let us be clear who can use this for money laundering.

I am thoroughly convinced, particularly in the wake of the December 2011 Justice Department decision about the inapplicability of the Federal Wire Act to most forms of Internet gambling, that continued congressional inaction on this issue…

I hope this is something that we move on very quickly.

this becomes a whole free for all without some Federal regulation of this.

So, just to be clear, this is having a real human impact on people, and we have not even gotten into the addiction yet that can be created by gambling.

And let us not kid ourselves. Our kids are a lot more tech savvy than we are, right?