We are here to make something that actually works. My largest concern is that whatever we do needs to work for everyone.

we are part of the solution. We are not the problem; we are part of the solution.

We want to be part of the solution, as we already are. We want to get something done here.

I do really appreciate both of you being here. You are both incredibly important to the industry that drives my district in southern Minnesota.

The quality of life for our citizens in rural areas is just as important as the urban areas.

Climate change is real and it is a serious problem.

We need to turn these lights off and the air conditioner in here that is being generated by coal as we speak.

Each of our residents in Spring Valley and throughout the city has a right to know that military pollution left over from this chemical research conducted in D.C. poses no danger to current or future residents.

Thank you so much, Chairman Dorgan, for chairing this, and to our witnesses.

I always thought that one of the real beauties of VAWA is how it tried to encourage community-based responses and getting groups involved.

One of the things that I have found recently in the last 10 years--we call it the 'CSI effect'--is that juries are actually expecting to have DNA.

Last year, it was discovered that Los Angeles County has the largest backlog of untested rape kits of any jurisdiction in the country.

I think sometimes laws and funding were set back at a time before we had this extent of the technology we have.

I think part of the successes that we have had with so many challenges ahead... is a tribute to all of you.

When we start to prioritize certain people, we create a parallel universe of justice, and that has to stop.

Should we be taking more steps up front to ensure that no one has to pay for the rape kit?

I know somewhere Paul and Sheila Wellstone are looking down on us today.

Just to define this, the CSI effect, for everyone, is that juries expect this and, if they do not have it, they may think that the person is not guilty.