Think about that. When you think about our budget and what we are spending on, let's consider that.

We know that kids with quality early childhood education... have better outcomes in so many different ways.

I want to focus a lot of my questions on this, because we are at a time now when we are looking at our long-term sustainability of our budget, of our deficit, long-term sustainability.

The Administration only requested $52 million for Indian school construction as part of the fiscal year 2012 budget proposal.

I look forward to pursuing the many ways that domestic policy can be improved.

I have to say that I hear a lot of frustration from the tribes that I speak to and the chairmen that I speak to and the members of the tribes that I speak to about the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the bureaucracy and the responsiveness of…

The Declaration speaks to precisely those issues and directs us to overcome those challenges.

President Obama did the right thing by signing the U.S. onto the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, joining virtually every other nation in the world.

The Declaration should spur us to do more and to do better.

We must ensure that the voices of Indigenous peoples are heard and respected.

Thank you all and congratulations to you all for your nominations.

Thank you, Senator Franken.

I also believe that term limits exist for a good reason. Term limits are like sunshine laws; they force us to bring in new leaders who take a fresh look at things.

It is in large part because of your tenacity and leadership that we haven't seen another major terrorist attack on our soil since 9/11.

I have a longer statement I am going to put in the record.

If you are confirmed as a district court judge, I anticipate you will preside over more cases in which you will have to draw your own interpretations of Federal law.

Well, I actually just stuck around because Judge Zipps has not been asked a question.

Senator Grassley has a bill to include some of these new synthetic drugs.