Susan Collins

The business of insurance is substantially and fundamentally different from the business of banking.

This legislation, authored by Senator Susan Collins, Senator Sherrod Brown, Senator Mike Johanns, Representative Gary Miller, and Representative Carolyn McCarthy, was unanimously approved by the Senate and House last year.

The unanimous support for this legislation in both the Senate and House constituted a definitive statement of Congressional intent that insurance capital standards must be appropriately designed and tailored.

I do not pretend to have an answer to it, but I am hoping that perhaps you do.

I think it is, too, and one that really cries out for some attention.

Thank you. I think that is very helpful for us to hear as we try to figure out the barriers that young homeless people face.

I actually think you have raised a really important point because our subcommittee has been contacted just 2 weeks ago by a youth who was turned away because he did not have the documentation needed.

I think that tells you how much the ranking member, Senator Reed, and I care about this issue.

We greatly appreciate the leadership of Chairman Collins and Ranking Member Reed and look forward to working with you on this and other proposals to improve the well being of America's children.

I want us to think about the differences between serving urban homeless youth and rural homeless youth.

Her sister runs the only shelter in North Dakota that is devoted to runaway and homeless youth, and she has been such a strong advocate in this area.

I think it grossly underestimates the problem.

Thank you. Ms. Shore, you mentioned the barriers and eligibility difficulties that can make it very hard to serve these young homeless and runaway youth.

I am proud to have joined Senator Patrick Leahy in sponsoring the Runaway and Homeless Youth Trafficking Prevention Act that regrettably failed to advance last week even though it received a majority of votes from the Senate.

I have advocated strongly for the TIGER program since joining the Appropriations Committee in 2009.

I want to associate myself with your position on the e-cigarettes completely.

One important way to reduce highway fatalities is to require the installation of speed limiting devices on heavy trucks.

Passenger rail is critical to our overall national transportation strategy, and fixing our network and investing in state of good repair I think is essential to reducing congestion, improving efficiency, and to connecting towns across…

I am a strong supporter of using this program to finance critical infrastructure projects like this.

I am simply astonished that we are once again waiting for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to sign off on these important regulations.

The record will remain open until next Friday for any additional questions or testimony that may be submitted.

This is something that would save a tremendous amount of money

I led a letter with Pennsylvania Senator Casey and 20 other Senators asking the subcommittee to consider funding Amtrak at $2 billion for fiscal year 2016.

This strikes me as Government overkill at its worst.

While I support a repatriation proposal and am completely open to using some of the resulting funds for our infrastructure, the President's budget is based on a reauthorization that is once again funded by a Band-Aid approach.