I believe that fiscal discipline requires policymakers to allow the upper-income Bush tax cuts to expire on schedule at the end of 2012.

In Senator Mikulski's home State of Maryland, where many of my patients also live, the DOD OCRP has funded research on important questions such as:

I know that Senator Barbara Mikulski has found our work important for them.

I rise in favor of ending lavish and unneeded ethanol subsidies. This is the second opportunity that my colleagues and I have to end unnecessary subsidies to one of the most profitable and wealthy industries in the world. In May, I voted…

yesterday I voted for the Tester amendment on debit card interchange fees. This amendment would give the Federal Reserve more time to study the impact of proposed debit card fee regulations on consumers and the community banks and credit…

We have to find a way to live within our means and cut the excesses and the unnecessary.

I think it was time well spent.

I appreciate the subcommittee's support for early childhood programs and the opportunity to address you today.

For the boys it must be impactful to have a male family coordinator--because let's be candid about the workforce.

I hope that we can hear more about what the Administration intends for those grant awards from you today, Dr. Lombardi.

Workforce and workforce development would be a total issue here.

I think that is excellent. I would say to my colleagues, because I know PNC is in Maryland...

I recently introduced the LEARN Act which is a program to provide Federal support for comprehensive State and local literacy programs.

And of course our friend, Senator Casey, introduced some important legislation yesterday.

We need to just look at what we pay now, so we don't pay later.

We are also looking for Senator Franken to ask his questions.

You can't see it for war either.

I think those are three excellent ones.

Would it be your recommendation that when we reauthorize or look at the reauthorization of the childcare development grant that we just simply replicate the military program?

The most important thing I do is build relationships with the families, to the kids, to the school, to the principal, to everybody.

the Head Start coordinator was a different kind of audit.

You need to clean this up, you need to do this right.

What we have to do is learn the lessons from those two programs, and that is part of why I say define the field.

When Head Start began every Head Start Program had to have a family coordinator

I can't thank you more for making this the topic of our initial hearings and I look forward to working with you this Congress.