I suggest that we proceed under the laws that we had passed that were legitimate, because national security is more important.

I don't know how we gain anything by handing someone over to a committee to be determined whether they're going to go to the United States where they can be released into the streets of the United States.

I commit to you to do everything in my power to make sure we use it wisely, effectively and get broadband out to every part of the country that needs it, that we can afford to with the amount of resources you provided.

I think it worked well.

We are going to start the process of having the secretary have jurisdiction over all the food in the school.

I hope we can get that done before the end of the year.

If the offset program is administered properly and fairly with credible and verifiable offsets that, at the end of the day, farmers and ranchers will benefit from this.

It is vital that America demonstrate how the inclusion of agriculture and forests in a domestic approach to climate change can, in fact, produce real and lasting benefits to both landowners and the climate.

I believe it is crucial that we engage the participation of farmers, ranchers and forest landowners.

the cost of inaction, I think, is unacceptable.

There is no question that innovation is going to make a significant difference in terms of costs.

It is time we invest in the farmers of the Midwest instead of the oil cartels of the Mideast.

I commit to them, and to you, that the USDA will maintain a close partnership in our work on climate change and renewable energy.

your activity as an advocate, and as a leading light in supporting biomedical research, is what has sustained the current funding climate that makes our work actually happen.

You take that message back and when I see my 99 colleagues on the Senate floor this afternoon; we're voting at 5:30 p.m., I'll tell them there was one unanimous view today, more funding.

I disagreed with her opinion, and yet I recall that she said--she wrote in that opinion that perhaps there would be a time in the future, perhaps 25 years in the future, where we could back and revisit and where we would no longer justify…

They are an organization that has been announced within the last couple of days that it is their endeavor to broaden their reach.

I want to congratulate you and Mr. Graves and all of those who have set this tone that this Committee does work for the best interest of small business in America.