Senator Mikulski, at a previous hearing referred to them as bounty hunters and she was more right than I think anyone realized.

Thanks to an amendment by Senators Sherrod Brown, Bennet, Franken and Mikulski, the Bureau will include a Private Education Loan Ombudsman.

I think we need to look at the niche that they fill and examine what other institutions could fill that niche.

I look forward to working with you on a clear set of rules of the game, reform and maintaining choice and opportunity but not profiteering and gouging.

I believe that higher education is a very important right in our country.

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I thank Senator Boxer very much for her steadfast stance for American women. Today, the Democratic women have come to the floor to talk about the terrible impact the Republican budget coming from the House and getting started in the Senate…

I want to take this opportunity to salute the women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces and honor the sacrifices they have made for our country. Long before they were welcomed as members of the military, women played an important role…

We could always buy more equipment, but you cannot always buy more troops as if you can pull them in off the shelf.

But conditions are changing. They are changing by the tweet.

I just want to echo your remarks and that of the ranking member in thanking both Secretary McHugh and General Dempsey for all that they do to keep our country safe and to keep our troops safe.

I am apprehensive that maybe we are going to need a larger standing Army to not only meet unintended things in the world.

Thank you for organizing today's hearing on public health, medical, and bioterrorism preparedness.

You were the guy who broke the AIDS code.

You broke the code and we invented--not only mapped the code, but came up with new fields called computational biology, bioinformatics.

Well, I think this would be enormously useful to this subcommittee, Mr. Chairman, because, as you know, this is a topic--a big public-policy topic they ponder all of the time.

I'm very proud of the fact that NIH is located in the State of Maryland.

So while we're busy--You know, we like to pound our chest and come up with all kinds of things in education to encourage people for science, but our young people are going in it, but they need opportunity, both in the public as well as in…

I must say both the chairman and the ranking member were enormously supported to minimize the disaster, but it was not a victory.

Your practices came out of our quality initiatives and our national health effort through the Patient Protection and Affordable Patient Care Act.

I think we need to confirm Dr. Berwick and stop fooling around here because under his leadership, the most important healthcare finance officers in America work.

People were so intent on the delivery of high tech and high touch medicine that they weren't looking at the negative consequences to that.

While you got high tech and high touch, you didn't get a lot of information when you were ready to leave about what you needed to do to comply with the medical regime.

I think it is a national waste that we don't have this man confirmed.

Essentially the intervention is relatively low tech, as Senator Mikulski noted.