Michael Bennet

I wonder, Dr. Glauber, if you would like to talk briefly about the value of the USDA Conservation Programs for keeping our soils healthy.

I think, where the Congress's inability to act in real time is absolutely penny wise and pound foolish.

Thank you for the emergency grazing.

Thank you for doing it.

I do not think there is anything that is creating a greater drag on this economy than our own dysfunction.

I want to ask you a couple of questions. The first one is, as we have lurched from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis in this land of flickering lights on Capitol Hill, people at home are doing the best they can to try to build…

It ought to be possible for someone who works 40 hours a week to earn a decent wage.

It is time for us to start working together to solve this problem.

It has made it harder, harder, and harder for people working hard to get ahead.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you've done and for your extraordinary leadership of this department.

Our inability to focus on them and continuing to allow a comprehensive solution to our debt and our deficit to elude us is resulting in our hacking away at discretionary spending that we need to invest in the next generation of Americans.

You couldn't wait for this body to do this work.

I want to thank you very much for holding this hearing.

Historically, given the varying types of Medicaid coverage levels by State, it has typically been children with serious emotional disturbance, and adults who have been found to be disabled due to a mental illness that have been most often…

We do not view this as a partisan effort. We believe this is a nonpartisan effort, and I think the process that Senator Udall established to fill this vacancy is one that could be a model for the entire country.

I want to thank Senator Udall, in particular, for his leadership in approaching what should be, and was, in our case, a bipartisan effort to find the very best person for this vacancy.

All of the Members of this Committee are involved in the industry discussions around potential kill switches that Senator Crapo mentioned before

I rise to engage the chairman of the Armed Services Committee in a colloquy.

I think Senator Alexander hit the nail on the head. It's a question of clarity, of what the roles and responsibilities here really are.

It should have been a red flag that was followed up on, and it wasn't.

It's one of those things where it doesn't even feel like it's a gray area. It feels to us like it was a flashing red light.

This may be the most needless tragedy that I've seen since I've been here.

I have asked my Colorado bankers to pull that information together, how many pages, how many lawyers, how much money are they going to spend.

Most people don't realize that that's really not going into the PBGC trust fund. That's actually going to the highway trust fund now.

I'd say that I really appreciate your concern over the PBGC premiums and what that does on medium and smaller companies.