Gary Peters

The purpose is to try to incentivize people doing the right thing and the right thing is saying something when you see something and doing something after you said something. It's really that simple.

Why still is the reputation of the university and money more important than the lives of hundreds of girls and women who are abused?

The trauma experienced by the survivors will have lasting effects that will last a lifetime and the stain on a great university will be there for decades to come.

This settlement grew directly out of a culture that may have enabled a predator.

The way that I believe that we can improve our coordination is to engage our intelligence community, national security apparatus, and law enforcement community in targeting some of the key networks trafficking wildlife

Those law enforcement officials, U.S. in particular, in Africa and Asia are incredibly under-resourced, still.

I think in many countries, many parts of Africa, corruption is the elephant's biggest threat.

We do really need to make anti-corruption the focus.

This is about saving people's lives and so there has been a commitment from this committee and members of this committee to try to move that along quicker.

We hope to get action on the Floor soon.

I think there are some folks that have been very concerned about the lack of direction from NHTSA on this issue and some of the clarity coming from NHTSA and that's actually negatively impacting the market.

Thank you to each of our nominees for your willingness to serve our country and, if confirmed, I look forward to working with all three of you on these critical issues.

We need to ensure that our transportation systems are safe and accessible for all Americans.

It's something that you believe will enhance safety dramatically in this country and why speed is critical.

Our legislation, that many Members of this Committee have strongly supported--I see Senator Hassan here, for instance.

The post office, for the most part, does not have that, because we do not have a requirement on them.

We here, in my State of Ohio, have had epidemic levels of opioid addiction and overdoses and deaths.

Well, I would like a brief on what has happened since the President's statement.

If anything happens to that lock, within a matter of weeks the entire U.S. economy would go into recession.

This is a critical issue for us, and I can appreciate you may not be fully up to speed on this particular one, but it is one that I think we need to pursue, and I would love to have that conversation.

So you are anticipating it may be a reality.

I was disappointed to hear reports that National Security Advisor John Bolton is considering eliminating the White House Cyber Coordinator position.

We have to bring all of our resources to bear in order to thwart this threat.

The most significant threat that we have to our national security comes from cyber attacks.

I think you could say that the fact that the United States has had considerable success in decimating al-Qaeda in the region is an out-and-out success.