Did you feel that it's not only market forces that will be able to contain and even lower costs, but these other significant, what we would call, public health initiatives, like quality initiatives, and also more efficient and better…

In other words, the market and its disciplines, which are significant, are only one of the tools for cost containment in discipline.

I believe that Secretary Clinton has chosen wisely because Ambassador Sherman brings to this post an exceptional background and a great deal of skill.

She brings competence, intelligence, and integrity.

She understands and respects the important role of Congress in foreign policy.

in honor of World Social Work Day, I rise today to introduce the Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act and the Clinical Social Work Medicare Equity Act of 2011. I am proud to introduce legislation that…

on Thursday I reintroduced the National Metro Safety Act with Senators Cardin, Murray, Warner and Webb. I first introduced this bill on July 23, 2009, after the deadly crash on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's Metro…

We want to assure you this subcommittee will be working on a bipartisan basis with you.

We feel the same way. And we wish you Godspeed. I look forward to voting for you.

If you want an additional series of meetings, the FBI will.

I want to go to the--when America goes, it's because we're really doing the best of the best.

We, on a bipartisan basis, cannot sustain technology with repeated cost overruns.

They said they needed $500 million each year, in 2011 and 2012.

Rather than going into that today, here is what I suggest: At midnight today, the Senate Appropriations Committee will present its bill.

So if I came now with--if a biotech entrepreneur out of Maryland came with an idea for, say, breast cancer, or cognitive stretch-out for an Alzheimer's disease, how long would they be in line?

We want to join with the President in his national goal of out-building and out-innovating and out-educating.

Well, Mr. Director, thank you very much for that candid testimony.

this was a bipartisan effort in fighting mortgage fraud that came from Senator Shelby and myself

we don't want it to sputter out.

Because if our Southwest Border is at risk, the entire United States of America is at risk.

For $8 billion, I think we can get a lot of jobs and a lot of value.

I want to express both to you and through you during this time of tension around shutdowns how much we value the people who work at the Department of Commerce.

We are a Nation of a rule of law. Therefore, we need to support an independent judiciary.

As we speak, the United States of America is under attack.

We want to be sure that this year, we invest $370 million in going after the sexual predators.