We need to make certain that whatever resources are required to implement that program...

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Girl Scouts of Rhode Island, a program that strives to help young girls become model citizens. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America, as well as National Women's History Month…

It makes no sense, I urge the committee to fully fund it.

We must immediately address the chronically unemployed who have grown by 441% since 2008 by providing them with the emergency funding to extend, not cut, Unemployment Insurance to those who have exhausted their benefits.

We should, and can, do better and I urge the committee to fund LIHEAP at $7.1 billion a year so that folks do not get cold in the winter.

I urge this committee to make sure that any future budget support increased funding for the Port Security Grant Program.

As Co-Chair of the Congressional Career and Technical Education Caucus, I have seen that a failure to engage our students has hurt our country's innovative edge.

I urge this committee to please consider the importance of these programs as you continue preparing next year's budget.

I have been very concerned over time about the capabilities of our bases here in the United States to withstand a cyberattack directed against outside supporting infrastructure, such as the electrical grid.

Are there capability shortfalls with regard to your counterproliferation mission that require investments in R&D?

Rhode Island has been hit very hard by foreclosures, and the frustration is that in many cases those foreclosures should not have happened.

In some cases, the foreclosure, frankly, should not have happened just as a matter of decency.

The person in the house was actually the best person to buy the house, and yet the bank insisted on throwing them out.

I write to express my strong support for the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park Establishment Act (S. 1708).

He was a visionary then, a visionary in the Senate, and this would be a fitting tribute to his service.

I was proud to introduce this bipartisan legislation, along with Senator Kerry, Senator Whitehouse, and Senator Scott Brown.

Mr. President, I introduce the Project Rebuild Act today, and I thank Senators Durbin, Schumer, Leahy, Akaka, Sherrod Brown, Whitehouse, Merkley, Begich, Franken, and Blumenthal for joining me as original cosponsors of this bill. Rhode…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to join in what appears to be a bipartisan sentiment that's developing on the floor of the House today, and I'm pleased to be part of it. I'm pleased to stand with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle…