You have long dedicated yourself to ensuring the rights of workers in California and across the country, and I look forward to working with you at the helm of the Labor Department.

We have a health care system that is broken--impacting our families, our businesses and our competitiveness as a nation--and a Department of HHS and health agencies in desperate need of leadership.

The knowledge, temperament, passion and expertise you possess will be instrumental in achieving comprehensive health care reform.

We have a healthcare system that is broken.

I can think of no better leader to tackle these important challenges than you, Senator Daschle.

We may be looking at the first generation of Americans who grow up less healthy than the previous generation.

He has made this the cause of his career and his life.

As important, is the critical need to restore the Department to one whose decisions are based on the best available science, not the political ideology of the moment.

I would strongly encourage us to promote this work and coordinate, prioritize and expand the work being done by these agencies.

There are a lot more questions, obviously, but I think, as Tom pointed out, we could literally have hearings on almost every question that has been raised this morning.

I introduce the credit card accountability, responsibility and disclosure act, the Credit Card Act. This bill will stop abusive card practices that drag so many of our fellow Americans and their families further and further into debt.

I have introduced the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, the Credit Card Act. This bill will stop abusive card practices that drag so many of our fellow Americans and their families further and further into debt.

Their discomfort in coming to the Congress with hat in hand is only exceeded by the fact they are seeking treatments for wounds that I believe to a large extent where self-inflicted.

We're not going to come to a conclusion on a three-legged stool without the fourth leg.

We are not going to come to a conclusion on a three-legged stool here, missing the fourth leg.

I understand speed is important. But I'm far more interested in whether or not we get this right.

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