Corn farmers, soybean farmers, all want to manage their risk, and what they need to know is that they are going to have markets that are fair, transparent, effective, not manipulated by speculators.

We hope that the Senate will promptly ratify a START Follow-on Treaty.

The Obama administration will make every effort to conclude the Treaty before the expiration of the START Treaty in December 2009.

It is clear that the ground-based missile defense system and the U.S. missile defense system proposed for Europe require challenging and realistic testing before Congress and the Administration can determine if those systems can be…

I think the whole focus of this debate has got to be how do we figure out the right way, the balanced way to constrain some of the risk.

I want to compliment you on the good judgment you exercised during the BRAC process.

I think we need to understand the scope of the impact that that kind of a treaty could have on our defense and U.S. defense programs.

LIUNA supports the extraordinary work being done by both Chairwoman Boxer and Senator Kerry and this committee.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding today's hearing on the important highway safety issue of Distracted Driving.

I believe in a low carbon future. We are making strides in South Dakota, and I am hopeful that we can improve this bill so that it moves us farther down the field in the right way.

Let me begin by commending Secretary LaHood for holding the recent summit on distracted driving.

But accident statistics show it is time to stop multi-tasking and time to give complete attention to our driving.

We've done, I think, a good job of that.

I think perhaps one of the biggest issues and challenges we have to deal with is just public complacency.

I was alarmed by the treatment that a number of veterans from South Dakota received when they traveled to our Nation's capital.

There are ongoing changing terrorist threats that we have to react to.

I would appreciate any steps you can take to make sure that that situation doesn't happen again.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank our panelists for shedding some light on this subject.