Joe Donnelly

I think we not only have to win the battles, we have to re-acquire the hearts and minds of the people there.

We have people who are starving, in effect, and we have the ability to try to do something about it.

It is about your leadership on setting those national standards.

We are losing 22 veterans a day to suicide. In the Active Duty, we lost 132 young men and women in combat in 2013. We lost 475 to suicide, almost four times as many.

And, not to interrupt you----but just to say, and they are extraordinarily concerned.

we want to succeed and we want to succeed in a way that our partners and friends... look at and say, it makes sense.

I am hopeful we can get to a good deal, but the question is, what is a good deal for the United States?

the only thing that we want, we expect out of this, is just enough to meet practical needs.

It is an honor to be on this Committee.

This bill would change the definition of 'full-time employee' back to the traditional 40 hours a week threshold.

Given the broad bipartisan, bicameral interest in ameliorating this problem and the strong national consensus outside of Washington, DC as well, we urge the Senate to bring a vote on this matter to the floor.

make this bill stronger. . . . [C]ommon wisdom is that full-time is a 40-hour work week, and the health care law should reflect that.

America has already been attacked, in that we have lost a number of our young people already to ISIL.

If we have resources, they ought to be used in this area, it seems to me, that we either eliminate them or there's going to be a catastrophe in our own country.

ISIL has said that they are establishing a caliphate. Their caliphate that they want to establish is a whole lot bigger than where they are right now.

I have had concerns about excessive speculation and its effect on increasing prices for working families.

Thank you for your leadership on the Committee, how privileged I felt to be a part of this.

Are we still committed to finalizing a good position limits rule in a timely manner?

Those actions have lost the confidence of our ag community, that they sit and work every single day to make our waters cleaner.

I think the closer you stay towards being in contact on a constant basis not only with my ag community but everybody else's, I think you will find there are a lot more solutions there than you could ever imagine.

I guess I would just urge you and the EPA as we look at this to have more confidence and more faith in our farmers.

There is a real feeling, I think, in our ag community of what has become an us-against-them situation in regards to the Waters of the United States.

Our Government is supposed to be my partner and instead they seem like my adversary.

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