Sam Brownback

If there is a subsidy, as determined by WTO, that that's considered into the base price of the bid.

NASA is going to be paying for initial flights in late 2011 by SpaceX.

I've been frustrated about the lack of being able to consider the illegal subsidy.

I would say as well to my colleague from Vermont, my colleague from South Carolina, and others who are sponsors, this is an issue I hear a lot about when I am traveling around my State, which is often. When I am traveling around and…

Chair Maloney, I want to thank you for scheduling today's hearing to examine the particularly vexing problem of long-term unemployment: the causes, consequences and solutions.

So we need growth. We need jobs. That is what I hope for more than anything.

We have lost over 8 million jobs in this downturn.

Job one, two and three is getting jobs back to the United States. We all know that.

Auto dealers are in town today. We have a series of auto dealers from across the country who are here and they are deeply concerned about the consumer financial products piece of this particular legislation. They are concerned because it…

Nearly half a million acre-feet of water pulled out of the system, is that correct?

It seems like some flexibility here might be prudent, at least for a period of time.

As drought is expected to persist in the Southwest, it is of the utmost importance that we put in place infrastructure and other measures that will reclaim and recycle this precious resource.

Should we be considering amendments in Congress on this to give some alleviation?

The bills we have under consideration this afternoon intend to address a very serious issue facing certain regions of this country--the supply and availability of our water resources.

So you've got still roughly what, $42 million that hasn't been obligated?

Can you quantify that for me?

I am pleased to join you in welcoming the witnesses and members of the public.

You're opposing all these on funding grounds.

I guess the point I want to make sure that I get to, if you've got $42 million that's unobligated at this point, but you're opposed to all of these projects based on funding, I take it, where's that $42 million going to go?

478,000 acre-feet of water?

I want to recognize you and your longstanding commitment to these difficult issues around the world.

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.

On neglected diseases, this is an area that Senator Sherrod Brown and I have worked a lot on.

I urge you to continue supporting plant biotech research in Global Hungry and Security Initiative, particularly in places like Africa and Southeast Asia.

This Comprehensive Peace Agreement's been one of the great successes, I think, of foreign policy for the last decade or so for us that took a 20-year conflict in Africa and has ended.