I appreciate your thoughtfulness, and it is really a pleasure to be able to introduce Sean O'Hollaren to the Committee and to support his nomination as Assistant Secretary.

I want to figure out a way to help you and the Republicans and folks on both sides of the aisle to try to find some common ground on issues that we have spent

I think it is an extraordinarily important agency, both from the standpoint of your tools under existing law, and the bully pulpit function that the Federal Trade Commission can perform.

Well, again, I would hope that when you find anticompetitive practices, you do more than say, 'Gosh, that is just too bad.'

the President would be vigilant in ensuring that consumers will be protected from price-gouging at the gasoline pump this summer.

We Oregonians are very proud to see nominated for this position, and look forward to his confirmation.

I hope we can work together.

I know there are some contentious issues--family planning.

I just wanted to tell you that I am going to be watching it very carefully in terms of the human rights abuses in Colombia.

Our colleague Senator Wellstone has taken the lead in a lot of these areas.

I think it is a distorted sense of priorities. I also think it is a dangerous policy.

Women in this world are suffering greatly.

In the State Department now there is an office having to do with Holocaust assets retrieval.

If that fight is in the future between Commerce and Defense, it would be my hope, with your background, your expertise, your stature, that as the chief foreign officer representing the United States that you would weigh in on that.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

I support the Swiss Center of North America not just because it will be located in my district.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of National Pollution Prevention Week, which is being observed this week, September 18-24, by many in the Second District of Ohio and across the nation.

I am pleased that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and Church Plans, with the assistance of federal regulators, have been able to reach a compromise on this matter.