I would recommend that as a strategy in the future

I commend the President for committing to use only emergency off-budget funding for the incremental costs of ongoing overseas operations and not for base or ongoing activities.

One thing that I think is not well understood is that because of the complex structure of these securitized mortgages that are at the root of the financial calamity the Nation finds itself in, voluntary programs to readjust mortgages may…

Yes, they've been on the receiving end of John McCain's temper. But while both say they want Barack Obama to be president and they think he would make a better president, they both say Democrats are wrong when they say John McCain is too…

[t]he Corps, through our pilot study, found no basis to claim that reverse auctioning provided any significant or marginal savings over a traditional contracting process for construction or construction services.

I believe we would all agree that diseased or maimed animals should not be allowed to infiltrate the system.

We need to be on top of these inspections, we need to understand it, and I'm confident that our--now-investigation will lead us to finding out how it happened.

You've shed a lot of light on a serious issue, and we will see what we can do to make things better.

These images exposed wholly unacceptable gaps in American meat inspection systems.

It seems to me, the only way we can do this, is by having complete surveillance of the line that leads into the slaughter.

Let's get back, because I think there's some imprecision there, in terms of my understanding.

But are you--are we prepared to say that we will work together to see to it that the inspection that takes place of these animals, to prevent downed animals from infiltrating the system, the system we put in place will be a 100…

But you should have been inspected by a veterinarian.

We don't want this hearing to give the indication that the problem isn't a serious problem, that requires some strong action.

Last year, USDA did weaken that rule.

Americans, myself included, were appalled to see cattle too sick to stand, much less walk.

But isn't it also true that this whole problem was uncovered by a camera that wasn't even yours? It was from The Humane Society.

U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin, said Thursday that his Senate Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee will hold a Feb. 28 hearing on the recall.