The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will come to order.

We have to focus on the mental health conditions again of our kids in schools and how by getting to that early on, ... you can solve a lot of our physical ailments in this country.

I tried in the last transportation bill, I offered an amendment that said that any entity that gets Federal money through transportation for streets and roads and things like that had to incorporate in their planning and architecture bike…

the final push for reform must come from the Federal Government.

Congress is poised to act.

Iowans and all Americans may be able to find health care security.

in America we have a sick care system.

It ought to be easy. It ought to be one of the easiest things you do--to eat healthy, work healthy, play healthy, be healthy.

It's time to make them the centerpiece of that conversation, not an asterisk, not a footnote, but the centerpiece of health care reform.

no political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulation or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for 2 years.

If DOD's books cannot be audited, then the defense finance and accounting system is disjointed and broken.

I think the False Claims Act... has been a very, very important tool for us to root out fraudulent use of taxpayers' money.

Oversight helps make Government more transparent. The taxpayers have a right to know whether the taxpayers' money is being appropriately spent.

You have admitted to poor judgment in your handling of this case.

I wish a President of the United States, previous and this one coming up, would have done that.

I have no personal problem with a pardon, but that you expected a howl from the Southern District.

It bothers me that giving Rich a 'get out of jail free' card happens, and that's especially offensive to me.

don't you think that before the President--a President, in this case, President Clinton--decides to overturn the sentences of people like those in the video that we just showed doing what I said that they were doing, that the Justice…