Addressing mental health is essential for the well-being of our children.

Thank you Chairman Dorgan and Vice-Chair Barrasso for holding this timely and important hearing.

I do think that we have some common agreement on the need to move forward here with some of the recommendations from this report.

I have found some common ground with prosecutors, defense lawyers, and police, that we always want to get the right person.

In my opening statement I asked whether we should consider a nationwide moratorium on the death penalty.

The fact is that many forensic tests have never been exposed to stringent scientific scrutiny.

These are worrying figures for any country, let alone the world's leading democracy.

I found the article extremely disturbing and the findings of the National Academy's report to be terrifying.

We incarcerate more people than any other industrialized nation--in fact, we incarcerate more people than any nation, period.

Over 25 years ago, Minnesota was the first State in the Nation to adopt legislation to address acid rain.

I think you need some sort of independent scientific research program.

I think you're completely correct.

What is the unemployment rate now for Gulf War Era Veterans, those Veterans who have served in the Armed Services since September 2001?

We know we're not out of this, that this isn't going to turn around overnight.

So you can see why the President has made it a priority to try to get people to not just finish high school but to finish some, at least a year of college.

I think the other piece that people do not always think about is that the Stimulus--the Recovery Act was one-third of these investments, but the other one-third was shoring up state budgets and unemployment and things we have talked about…

We're still not where we should be.

Didn't you once tell me that temporary help services--or maybe someone else did--is always a sign that there could be some improvement, or not?