we are not going to let other countries around the world, make sure that their rural populations, that their people have access to very high bandwidth and ours do not.

the best thing that could happen is to remove all those State barriers and let local governments do what local governments do best: respond to their constituency.

we are both recommending somewhere between $50 million and $100 million in addition.

how fast, how cheaply, and how quickly we can get broadband Internet service to the small businesses in this country to help them create the kind of jobs necessary to be successful.

it is going to be interesting to see how it turns out.

I rise to pay tribute to a great Civil Rights leader of our Nation, who passed away recently. I come to the floor in her memory to pause for just a moment and to remember this great lady. Tuesday, the Nation lost a powerful advocate for…

I am so pleased to come to the floor this morning to acknowledge that in the Capitol today there are 17 young women from Louisiana, Florida, New York, and Washington who are my special guests for Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day…

Will the current Army Milcon and SRM investment funding plans provide single enlisted soldiers the same quality of housing we provide married soldiers by a date certain?

There is an urgency about this.

I am desperately trying, as a leader of this Committee, in this effort with my colleague, to get this budget for this agency back up to where it was 10 years ago.

I think that if this agency is well resourced, well led, with effective and targeted programming, we can be a big help in supporting the millions of small businesses out there.

I have introduced S. 3165, the Small Business Community Partner Relief Act.

This agency should operate in the most transparent, accountable way possible.

helping the Haitian Government and working with international partners... to put down as a cornerstone a free universal education system for Haiti accomplishes many goals

If we are not trying to coordinate, is there a country in the world that is tasked with coordinating...

I think it's just critical, which brings me to my questions about Haiti.

I think this has been one of the most interesting, thought provoking panels and most professionally executed panels that I have ever heard in my time in the Senate.

I think Americans would be absolutely shocked to hear the statistic here, that average African American families have less than $5,500 in wealth compared to average white families, that have an average of $87,058.

While government does, Mr. Johnson, have a limited role, it could have a very muscular and important role to play in righting injustices.

I just find that completely unacceptable.

This is something that I am going to really drill down on with this Committee.

Caring for American veterans remains one of the Nation's highest priorities and clearly is one of yours.

I have often said that I hope we some day become--and I think you are in the process of doing that--as good at taking care of our veterans as we are creating them.

These capital markets must work for all Americans. They just have to.

Recruitment for the Afghan National Police has been sharply improving over the last several months.