Johnny Isakson

Sings the praises of your Recovery Coordinator Program and says that it is most particularly beneficial for those that suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The most important thing we can do is make sure those spent warheads that are laying around are captured, deactivated, and we don't have the danger of a possible dirty bomb somewhere in the world.

Senator Lugar and Senator Nunn have done the country a great service.

Thank you very much, Senator Lugar.

The single most important issue I think to my constituents in Georgia, and to me personally, is the goal that you both have stated in terms of removing or reducing the accessibility of fissionable materiel to terrorists.

I always enjoy working with the distinguished former Governor, now Senator from Delaware, and I look forward to that moment where we are finding that 80 percent common ground.

I would love to work with you on this subject because it is the single biggest thing that is going to affect IDEA and special needs as we come together.

I take this hearing probably more seriously than I take just about any hearing, because when you look in the face of someone who has lost a loved one to a tragedy, no matter what that tragedy is, you really understand the full impact of…

I will continue to support parental involvement and parental options for students as we work on this reauthorization of ESEA.

This is a very important hearing, and I apologize. I will slip out for a minute, but I am coming back because I recognize the value of those testifying today.

I saw the remarkable difference they made in what I would refer to as nontraditional students, who are students that the system, one way or another, was losing.

Explain the Yellow Ribbon program to me.

Explain where there would be an application of an out-of-state tuition.

As I recall, there were about 32 4-year colleges or universities that were participating in delivering content to our active-duty personnel.

With regard to States where there is a tuition benefit that a veteran may earn, Georgia has the HOPE Scholarship program; I know California has free tuition programs, do you offset benefits based on that State benefit?

So if a veteran did not reside in Georgia long enough to qualify for in-state tuition at the University of Georgia, and if that out-of-state tuition was $10,000, you would reimburse up to half of that out-of-state tuition?

Mr. Wilson, isn't it true that on the question that Senator Burris asked regarding housing that the Veterans Administration establishes a housing allowance rate per zip code around the country, and then the solider is reimbursed or the…

But you do that through a negotiated contract with the university.

The expansion of the wonder of the Internet is what we are looking to in the future

I agree with Senator Johanns that this should be something that the Congress should deal with.

I think the Internet has been fabulously successful.

Teleworking is something we ought to be promoting to maximize the environmental benefits and everything else.

The President's budget, when it was released in February, first, cut the corps by about--the Coast Guard by about $75 million

You stated there were 1 million claims over 13 years before the EEOC.