Joe Courtney

We should have schoolchildren safe in this country.

Why are we still holding back the U.S. economy?

We have not raised the minimum wage since 2007.

And, certainly, that would be available to us, again, if a situation arose that would not put soldiers or airmen or anyone necessarily at risk.

Because there are Members who have been on some of the shows saying that, you know, well, we should have sent Special Forces in to get him.

I think, you know, listening to the testimony, most people, I think, would agree that what happened at Northwestern was because the NCAA has created a vacuum in terms of students being treated fairly.

It seems like that is a program that USDA can also help to promote.

You know, in a place like New England, for example----

The Cooperative Interstate Shipment Program also seems to be a way of trying to aggregate resources so that----

I wanted to talk to you a little bit about USDA which has done some research about consumer demand for local meat and poultry

They are taking us backwards in terms of the issue of higher education affordability.

About 11 million families lost $1,100 under the Ryan budget. I always thought Republicans were for cutting taxes.

The last time we spoke was one of the few brief shining moments of the 113th Congress where one of the 88 bills that has been enacted was about to be signed by the President last August.

That would be a significant reduction from the requirement that is necessary in order to have that survivable sea leg capability.

You need to have boats in for repair availabilities that take them out of the circulation.

The 12 Ohio replacement platforms is the requirement now and into the future.

The conflict over there, which again a lot of the press is focused on sort of, you know, rockets being fired and missiles being fired, but it also extends under the sea.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And want to thank both the witnesses for being here today.

I really hope that we can find a way to reconsider this decision until we have platforms in place that really will prevent the gap.

Fort Huachuca is a wonderful place. I don't know if you have visited it, but if you haven't it is a fantastic facility.

I have opposed sequestration. We will hope that we can come back and do something about that.

I think, you know, my friend Mr. McIntyre raised the issue of the ORP [Ohio Replacement Program] funding...

If the sequester levels go into effect in 2016 and years beyond, I mean, really it is not just aircraft carriers that are going to be impacted.

Katherine Hackett... is one of the victims of the non-action on the unemployment extension.

The better way to do it is to raise people's income, and as you point out, the savings that we would garner from raising the minimum wage far surpasses anything that folks were trying to do with the farm bill that just passed here.