Joe Courtney

The House bill was still better than the final bill, but I won't ask you to comment on that.

I want to just touch on two quick things that people talk a little bit about in Connecticut.

We can't allow costs to consume every other aspect of the Navy's budget and frankly, put pressure on the rest of the Pentagon.

Despite the massive increase in the Pentagon, we have steadily seen the fleet size fall below what the Navy has told us repeatedly is necessary, at 313 ship Navy.

I actually think that on the merits, Congressman Forbes is absolutely right about what the law says.

And quickly to conclude, I'm glad you mentioned teachers because as we now begin a great debate in our country about trying to reform America's schools, the one thing I think everybody agrees is getting young teachers who understand…

But there's no question that in terms of our own country's history, going back in time, again, even to the beginning of our government, even during the Civil War when the finances of this country were completely going from almost day to…

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In closing, again, I urge strong support for the resolution. It is a timely measure because, as the gentleman from Pennsylvania knows, today the Education and Labor Committee is holding a hearing on reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Act…

I am a proud cosponsor of the Healthy Food Choices for Kids Act, legislation introduced by my friend and colleague, Congressman Braley.

If we can do it for Wall Street--and we should, when that is necessary--to keep the economy going and to protect the middle class, we can certainly find a way to do it for our farmers.

We have to find what is common in the interest of these farmers in its price stability.

I support this proposal as a short-term solution to help put money back in the pockets of farmers until prices increase.

Dairy farms make up 70% of Connecticut's open space.

I want them to survive, but unless we provide additional support to these farmers.

This is a crisis that affects all of us, not just our dairy farmers.

I hope, again, with your leadership and this Committee's long record of support and commitment to dairy farmers that we are going to see that type of action and that type of help for a critical part of the American economy.

Thank you, Mr. Scott, and thank you, Mr. Neugebauer, for holding this hearing.

In Nevada, we have a serious problem with high school completion.

I have introduced legislation, the Every Student Counts Act, to address the dropout crisis that hasn't been fixed under the No Child Left Behind model.

This really should not be some child protection agency free zone where complaints can't be fielded and investigated.

Again, in our work, I mean, we have just got to achieve a parody level in terms of just how you treat an injured minor child.

That just takes my breath away, because I mean a lot of police departments, frankly, are not equipped to handle this type of investigation.

It just seems that, you know, this really should not be some child protection agency free zone where complaints can't be fielded and investigated.

Again, child abuse is child abuse, whether it happens in a home, whether it happens in a medical setting.