Joe Courtney

The fact of the matter is, is that having an adequately financed CFTC will in fact result in benefit to the taxpayer through enforcement actions

Thank you for holding this hearing and the witnesses for your really important testimony here today.

Thank you, that's all I need. And I would just say that the President responded to that call a few minutes ago by indicating that this measure is dead. It will be vetoed. It's not going anywhere. Let's get back to work and come up with a…

I look forward to working with you over the next few weeks on this issue. Now we're joined by a gentleman from the great State of Michigan, Congressman Hansen Clarke, who is a relatively new Member but who has, again, jumped right in on…

I thank the gentleman. Again, someone who's been a leader on this issue, first sponsor after we introduced the bill is Congressman Gary Peters from Michigan, so we're not all from New England and New York on the floor here this evening…

Thank you, Congressman Cicilline. And I'm glad you mentioned Senator Reid. Actually, we had an event in front of the Capitol a couple of weeks ago where Public Interest Research Group dropped off 130,000 petition signatures from college…

Hazing has no place in our military. It undermines our military readiness and deeply scars those volunteers forced to endure it.

I am very fortunate to represent the 1st Congressional District of Maine, which has Bath Iron Works, and the 5,500 wonderful workers and the great shipbuilders at that yard and the long tradition of producing incredible ships under budget…

I personally am an advocate of fixed price, assuming that you can get the risk properly identified and fenced off and understood.

Well, it sure seems like we are--again, we are not talking about programs that are in their infancy.

I mean, clearly the numbers speak for themselves. I mean, that was a bet that did pay off.

Again, we, in fact, pushed the advanced procurement add-on in the 2007-2008 budget cycle, which provided that opportunity to get to two in 2011.

And just one other quick follow up, is this--you will also give us the impact in terms of the fleet size over the next couple decades, which should, I think, show some pretty dramatic benefit if we are able to really fill that hole.

If we don't see some political outcome from reconciliation, which can have the effect ultimately of reducing the effectiveness and the effect safe havens; if we don't see Pakistani action to address the safe havens, then ultimate we are…

Having a timeline can be a very healthy thing in terms of also when you are trying to accomplish a transition.

One way that you stimulate leadership is with, you know, both sort of carrots and sticks.

I am quite concerned about the proposals for Medicare.

Thank you Mr. Chairman, and I am actually going to try and get within that five minutes, or below the five minutes, because I know you have a lot of input that you have to hear today and votes are coming up soon.

But, you know, we figured, well, okay, we will have an analysis that is going to show why even flying these planes is a net loser.

And again I hope that this Congress will recognize that you have hard work to do and that you need the staff to do it to protect our economy.

I would urge you to... get those position limits to follow the law, which is what the Congress enacted.

The law is crystal clear that this is something that the Commission was required to do.

The importance of the work your Commission does is in people's faces every single day.

Again, those planes are, in my understanding--are used for intelligence and reconnaissance given the fact that, you know, the strategy horizon is that we are sort of going to be leaving Afghanistan sometime in the future.

I mean there are a couple of options which, again, haven't played out.