We do not have to start from today to do things right and do things better.

I had asked whether or not you felt that the VA was being a little overly rigid in interpreting these regulations.

I wanted to ask you, if I could, just about the Race to the Top program.

But this is going to have to be changed, in my view.

It is harder today to get into TFA than it is to get into Harvard Law School.

It is my hope that the CPSC will be able to provide a definitive solution in the investigation into this issue facing impacted consumers in the near future.

the problem is if you push to get everyone there, you will give us no choice but to water down.

Nothing in our application was watered down.

Of particular interest to me and the state of Louisiana is the CPSC's ongoing investigation into defective drywall made in the People's Republic of China.

Thank you Chairman Durbin and Ranking Member Collins for calling this oversight hearing on the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC's) budget for fiscal year 2011.

So it is a real opportunity, I want to just say, for some unions.

The FRC project is critical to replacing the Coast Guard's fleet of 110-foot Island Class patrol boats.

The Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) will provide the Coast Guard with a new generation of patrol boats.

I am pleased to introduce the Small Business Parity Programs Act of 2010. As the Chair of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I have held a number of hearings and roundtables on the issues affecting small businesses that…

Thank you. Let me, while I have the floor, call attention to this document that is on our desks. It is the Executive Calendar that is placed every day on our desks. Since we have been at our desks now for many hours, I actually had the…

This is very troubling to me, as the chair of the Small Business Committee. Months ago now, we had Dr. Winslow Sargeant before our committee. The President nominated him to be the Chief Counsel of the Office of Advocacy for the Small…

as Chair of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I am pleased to join the Committee's Ranking Member, Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, and my distinguished colleague from Illinois, Senator Richard Durbin, in introducing the…

I thank you for your longstanding commitment to this issue.

220,000 individuals lost their lives in this disaster, compared to about 2,000 on the gulf coast, just to put it in scale.

The Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP) are on track to meet these goals.

This amendment is a stunt that really doesn't deserve the time that I'm even going to give to explain the portion of it that refers to Louisiana. And the reason I say it's a stunt is because it's actually written for television or the…

OSHA is not eliminating the VPP. However, OSHA is looking for other nongovernmental-funded ways to continue the program.

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?

Small businesses, when they get a contract from the Federal Government, will staff up because that is what small businesses do. They are very flexible. They are very agile. They will scale down, and they can scale up quickly. So I am proud…

Thank you Chairman Durbin and Ranking Member Collins for calling this oversight hearing on the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC's) budget for fiscal year 2011.