Sam Brownback

We've appropriated to the State Department I think it's $20 million for Internet firewall, getting through the Internet firewall.

Good. And the State of Kansas has committed a great deal on this, has committed assets, is committing assets, and they want to make sure that the Federal Government continues to commit its assets on it as well.

The President's fiscal year 2011 budget request contains no funding for the construction of the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility.

I sent you a letter in February about USAID's programs and capacity to help address the underlying causes of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The United States must have strong relationships and a strong and productive presence in Southeast Asia.

I really urge you to look at it.

this is what gives the Federal Government a bad name because people look at this and they go this makes no sense to me.

I really hope you look at other ways you can support that.

We want you to sell the minerals, Congo.

I've got a couple of other issues I want to raise with you, but I hope that's something you can do.

It's the blood diamonds issue, only got four commodities you're dealing with.

I think we have the chance here to defund the militias that are--that are really just wreaking havoc all over Eastern Congo.

I hope you can look at it because I think it's really key for us to get Congo and probably, as I mentioned, four countries in that region more stabilized so we get less money going to the protagonists that are in that region.

the State of Kansas has committed a great deal on this, has committed assets, is committing assets, and they want to make sure that the Federal Government continues to commit its assets on it as well.

Or enact other spending that would exacerbate the deficit or debt.

We must leverage technology to create a more sustainable future.

I really appreciate you guys doing that.

I close on this comment. Years ago, I had a chance to carry the bill for Congress to give Mother Teresa the Congressional Gold Medal.

I really believe, as Senator Brownback said, the uncertainty; cap and trade, tax increases, health care mandates, all that they are seeing up here is having a dramatic effect on businesses' decisions to invest capital, make that expansion…

On our current trajectory, we are on a track to have lower standards of living.

Because what I'm finding for a number of wind developers, they have to have an anchor buyer.

I noted to you in my opening comments that our debt is now 90 percent of GDP, our total debt, and that most economists believe when you get at that 90 percent level you have a significant drag on your overall economy.

If I could, I'd like to welcome a Kansan, Mr. Hesse, the CEO of Sprint.

We have to work on the jobless rate, yet it almost seems like now would be the time period we would start looking at how you pull back on some of the deficits that the Federal Government is running?

I think that is a wise move on the Fed's part.