We appreciate their sacrifice and their service and their leadership in helping ensure that, here at home and around the world, our servicemen and women get the best medical care available.

Health is also an important factor in global stability and security.

I want to be on the record as seconding the motion and the suggestion that you've just made.

We hope we can continue to support that, the maintenance of it, and make sure it is a place that is attractive to the visiting public.

Providing for the Nation's defense is an important and basic responsibility, and a functional, capable missile defense system is a key component of our national defense strategy.

One of the reasons I understand for this is the determination that there is an important need in maintaining a national ship building capability.

We look forward to working with them to identify ways we can make sure that the Guard and Reserve programs are funded at appropriate levels.

I am pleased to join the distinguished Senator from West Virginia, Mr. Rockefeller, in submitting a resolution to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Volunteers in Service to America, or VISTA, program. President Kennedy suggested in…

I think I am compelled to point out that our State and Louisiana too, well represented here on the subcommittee, are going to continue to need funds to rebuild and recover from the devastating effects of that hurricane, the most…

I congratulate you on your leadership and applaud your effort to procure and deploy advanced imaging technologies to screen passengers at our airports.

I think one of the ways the Coast Guard has been looking at taking up some slack is using unmanned aerial systems.

Over the past 20 years, more than $4 out of every $5 appropriated by Congress to the Disaster Relief fund have been provided through supplemental appropriations bills.

Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to join you in welcoming the distinguished Secretary of Homeland Security to this hearing to review the budget request for the Department for fiscal year 2011.

I was pleased with the rulemaking your Department issued in January of this year that outlines how hurricane victims can seek forgiveness of community disaster loans.

if you use the tax code as an incentive, you're bound to make progress, if it's targeted in the right way.

I am glad to see that it has turned out as it has and that we are going to be able to have a full fledged, confirmed Architect of the Capitol finally.

Mr. Ayers deserves our accolades and compliments on a successful completion of that work as well.

I agree with the Senator from Oklahoma that there is waste within government, that there is duplication or overlap of programs across some government agencies, and that the amount of spending approved for fiscal year 2010 was higher than…

It occurs to me, Mr. Chilton, listening to your testimony and expression of concerns about the inadequacy of the power or authority of the CFTC, that you are making an argument for additional definitive powers and responsibilities that…

Thank you very much for agreeing to serve in these positions. This is going to be a very challenging period, I think.

I enthusiastically, as Senator Bennett did, endorse his nomination and urge the Senate to confirm him at the earliest possible time.

Thank you very much for your efforts and being involved as the director of the NIMH.

I'm pleased to join you at this hearing, to thank our witnesses who've come to share with us their experience and thoughts about what we can do to more effectively deal with the challenge of autism.

I think we ought to introduce a bill to modernize our laws on Medicaid and reimbursement.

Mr. Chairman, thank you. I want to join you in welcoming Dr. Insel to the hearing, and also to recall that we've had hearings efforts in the past to try to develop a body of information that will help us identify better ways of dealing…