Johnny Isakson

The Kenyan Government and the Kenyan people have been supportive, as you said, for two decades and are bearing a tremendous amount of the burden now.

So, the problem is the corruption at the checkpoints that the al-Shabaab would issue.

The work that the United States is doing to get democratic institutions to tackle corruption in return for MCC compacts and other things of that nature, is changing Africa.

I want to particularly thank Wouter Schaap from CARE USA, headquartered in my hometown of Atlanta, GA, for being here.

As I understand it, we are allocated 30 minutes each. But I have no objection to the Senator having 5 additional minutes as long as 5 additional minutes are added to the Republican side. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection…

Walter Reed is being closed in the next 30 days, if I am not mistaken.

I appreciate what you are doing.

Thank you very much again, Crystal.

There are a lot of them, and the challenges just like Crystal has described are greater.

I want to compliment Crystal on her courage and their bravery to be here.

Why in the world you would have to continue to re-apply to the main nonmedical attendant over and over again.

I think it is a story that needs to be told over and over.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

When you take an arbitrary rule and apply it, you can sometimes have the unintended consequence of costing jobs and hurting minority employers equally to what any other non-minority employer might have been hurt.

The unintended consequence--I hope it is the unintended consequence--of the fiduciary rule is going to cost small business a tremendous amount of money and lose a lot of people in financial advice business and consulting business to small…

They are somewhat masters of their own destiny, if they just wake up and realize that.

So the North, which is interested in self-preservation first and foremost, in terms of the Government, runs a risk if they continue in Southern Kordofan.

My impression when I was in Khartoum, as far as their view of Darfur, was they were pretty much content to fight a surrogate war in Darfur.

That is a process that is predicated on good behavior, and it is predicated on us being sure that there is no more violence and continuing atrocities taking place in that part of the world.

I want to thank Princeton Lyman for his dedicated service to this area and to this cause.

It is time for NOAA to stop filibustering, and time for them to go ahead and take a rather simple step or two to finalize a plan rather than continuing to 'seek a solution.'

It's a two-way street. These nominees deserve civility, a thorough examination, but expedited treatment.

We cannot get through the maze. How in the world do we expect these guys to do it dealing with the injuries that they have?

Last the scope of the Federal Recovery Coordinator Program should be expanded to assist those in the greatest need for a transitional care coordinator.

The reason we have that center is to have a place a veteran can seek help at a difficult time.