I am pleased to be a co-sponsor with my friend from Rhode Island of S. 1328, The Strengthening Kids' Interest in Learning and Libraries Act.

What effect do you think this has had on the ability of school districts that do not have adequate resources for furnishing libraries?

I am very proud of the fact that my parents were both involved in education.

it is a distinct honor and pleasure to join Senator Leahy in welcoming our guests from the United Kingdom to the Senate. This is a tradition we have really enjoyed and benefited from--the close opportunity to talk and discuss issues of…

I look forward to joining forces with you in trying to help make sure we do everything we can here from the Federal level to help restore these communities that have been so heavily damaged.

I thank the distinguished Senator from Hawaii for his kind word about the management of this bill. I join him in his congratulations to the two managers. We appreciate their hard work. The committee had extensive hearings and review of all…

We are hoping that we can cooperate with the Administration. We have to figure out a way to expand into new markets if the old markets are drying up and to stimulate demand for U.S. livestock products.

We have got to move away from herd destruction orders and rely more on some preventive measures.

I am told that in 2010 alone, in my State, poultry totaled $22.47 billion in the value of our production, more than double the value of the second largest agriculture industry, but that economic prospects in our State are terribly…

I was particularly impressed with Mr. Concannon's comments about the challenges that his office has faced and how they are going about identifying fraud and abuse and eliminating it.

It seems to me that, with the continued pressures and strains on family relationships and unpredictability of deployment schedules, how you can maintain a job at home...

I'm hopeful that we can find a way to support, as this witness suggests, an increase in funding for prostate cancer research.

I think we have an obligation to look carefully into the suggestions of service connection between the events in their military deployment and the symptoms that are later discovered.

Thank you for bringing these facts and figures to our attention. It occurs to me that we need to give this our best consideration.

We appreciate the dedication and the serious approach that you have taken to trying to deal with and help recover from these terrible disasters that have struck our country.

We have some serious decisions that we have to make relative to the kind of appropriations and numbers that we are going to be able to put up to deal with the situations that we have.

Just because you had one last year does not mean you are not going to have one this year.

Madam Chair, thank you for chairing this important hearing.

I rise today to pay tribute to the brave men and women who have made the supreme sacrifice of their lives in defense of our Nation. This Memorial Day, I join all Americans in honoring those brave souls. Over the past decade since the 9/11…

I'm very pleased to join you in welcoming General O'Reilly to be here today to testify before our subcommittee.

It is so important to our continued growth and prosperity.

We recognize the seriousness of purpose that this office requires of General O'Reilly and we appreciate the experience and know-how he brings to this task.

We look forward to hearing the testimony and working with him and others in the Department of Defense on making sure that we are allocating the funds we need.

I'm pleased to join you in commending the distinguished witness, the Director of our Missile Defense Agency, on the excellent job that he has done.

Yesterday we had a very persuasive speech made in a joint session with President Netanyahu of Israel.