I just wonder if--I am proud of what you have done. ... if we want to replicate what you are doing around the country, I wonder if we need to have some more financial incentives or bonuses.

Well, listen, thank you all very much. This has been a great panel and I thank you for your leadership in this area, all of you, in this whole area.

I hope this administration, I hope the Obama administration and I hope others will start talking about a national effort to provide support for new mothers in the workplace.

I had offered an amendment that would have had a wellness policy developed by the Institute on Medicine that would have applied to all schools all over America.

Have you seen over your experience that schools are shifting more and more of these indirect costs to the School Lunch Program?

One welcome sign of help came in the President's recently released budget in which the President proposed $1 billion per year in additional funding for child nutrition.

I have said many times, and I will keep saying it, that if we are going to have meaningful health reform in this country, what our kids eat and how they exercise and whether they exercise is a big part of health reform in this country.

A stronger targeted investment in those programs must be a part of a comprehensive Federal response to poor nutrition among our children.

Overweight, obesity, even among our children have reached epidemic levels in America, raising the specter that our children will have shorter life spans than we have for the first time in history.

I think the important part of your story is that you did it and you didn't give up.

I feel we must reorient our health care system so that it focuses on preventing diet-related illnesses and promoting good nutrition and wellness.

Well, I just raise the question, if 16 percent is the mean on this, then I raise the question of why other school districts can't meet the mean if they are higher than that.

I think somehow we are going to have to take a look at that and how we might want to address it.

We have to come to grips with this in terms of having the dietary guidelines be standardized for the whole country and for every school.

you can have irresponsible Republican Congresses, you can have irresponsible Democratic Congresses, and if they overspend, eventually it is going to bring about inflation.

Patients and physicians deserve to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of medical devices, and the companies making the devices should be held accountable if they fail to achieve this standard.

I enthusiastically endorse and introduce Gary Gensler to the Committee to be the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

He will be a fierce enemy of fraud and manipulation.