it is hard for us to even understand why there is a question as to whether this infrastructure is in the national interest.

If the Congress does not provide waiver authority and funding for the World Heritage Program, then we hurt Poverty Point's chances of being designated a World Heritage site.

I am going to stay focused not only in my role as a Senator, but as chair of the Energy Committee on really pressing the country to understand the importance of becoming an energy powerhouse.

Children belong in families. Families belong together.

But the problem is, when PEPFAR was created, there were approximately 15 million orphans in the world. There are now 17 million.

I cannot find the word 'family' in, on any one of these pages.

children belong in families, children should be in families.

We are very, very serious about helping you to organize and put resources in your department that can focus on the fundamental fact that children belong in families.

Thank you for the leadership you have provided and the partnerships that you have developed with other Governments, and nonprofit organizations, and businesses to leverage the money that the taxpayers of the United States are putting…

I applaud them for handling it. But I don't know how they deal with this enormous burden of all the refugees.

Child welfare, particularly international child welfare, is more than a counselor issue.

We believe such changes are necessary at the Department of State to ensure that, both internally and externally, international child welfare is treated as more than an immigration enforcement issue.

Keeping them to the one they are born into, keeping that family together.

It is hard for us to even understand why there is a question as to whether this infrastructure is in the national interest.

Would you commit to me today, and to others, that you and your team will work to try to meet the original objectives of that $350 million to reconnect children that are orphaned by AIDS to families?

I continue to advocate for smart mitigation programs that save taxpayers $4 for every dollar spent for actions like elevating a home or office building.

I appreciate that because if people cannot afford to be in the program, then you will not have a program, and the debt will increase, and the program will collapse.

I think this is shocking actually--70 percent of all Southwest border apprehensions are apprehensions other than Mexican.

This Committee was very aggressive in making sure that we were screening people smartly for their safety.

We know what happens when children are not in the protection of the family. Horrible things happen.

I noted in the President's budget the $400 million in Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grants was included not as a part of the base budget because of restrictions, but as part of the aspirational budget.

65 percent of all the border juvenile apprehensions, with 65 percent is almost--well, it is 18,500.

Johnny really stepped up as a leader in the legal community to help all of the many lawyers that were dislocated from their homes.

I was so pleased to recommend this nominee to President Obama, and I am very happy and proud to introduce him to you all today.

It will be the responsibility of this subcommittee, as well as other Committees in the Senate and House, to craft a program that works decade to decade.