Debbie Stabenow

I worry that if we are not in the race and providing some solid long-term policy, we are going to lose jobs here.

You need to reauthorize CHIP so that anywhere from 2 million to 4.5 million children who are currently enrolled will not lose their insurance.

You are the health care father to millions of children who would not have health care or mental health services.

I am concerned about the differences there.

This is a very, very important issue, and I appreciate the focus now and look forward to working with you.

I agree with Senator Hoeven that nothing takes the place of being there and talking to people.

I want to underscore, I think, the importance of capacity building as it relates to women in leadership.

I would also underscore what Senator Thune said in his comments on technology.

These are valuable lessons.

Well, we hope future trade agreements will correct that.

We need to be focused on that.

I think Social Security is a great American success story.

We want to work with all of you to continue moving forward, build on best practices, be able to support and tackle the things that we are still needing to tackle to make sure that all schools are successful because in the bottom line we…

We would like very much to work with you on options.

I see the new standards as a value proposition for our Nation.

Senator Leahy asked to put a statement in the record which we will do without objection.

Yes, Senator Stabenow, deep fat fryers are obsolete.

Obesity in young children has more than doubled in the last 30 years.

Good morning, and we are very excited about this hearing and welcome to each of you for coming.

We were saying back in the anteroom I think we want to do a hearing on school nutrition every week.

I had the opportunity earlier this week to have a dinner with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, we met with some officials with the Department of Defense.

We talked about national security, we talked about global security, and the need that we see for that global security, especially in Europe with regard to the belligerent moves of Russia.

If you want to move your plant, if you want to move the company overseas, we are not paying for the move; we are not going to allow you to write off your costs of moving out of this country.

And it should not be that hard. It should not have been that hard.

One out of five Medicare dollars goes to the treatment of Alzheimer's, one out of five Medicare dollars.