I am concerned that when students who experience disabilities receive a publicly funded voucher to attend a private school, they often don't receive adequate resources.

What I'm asking you is--there is at least one voucher program in Florida, the McKay voucher program, which makes students sign away their rights before they can get that voucher. That is fundamentally wrong.

With all due respect, it's not about sensitivity, although that helps. It's about being willing to enforce the law...

On behalf of the thousands of New Hampshire residents-- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Debate is not allowed during a vote. The Senate will be in order.

we need to be seeking more innovative and more varied options of funding, and the TIFIA has certainly proven its worth.

I hope we'll think about making it accessible to people who, for a variety of reasons, can't drive.

a project to bring commuter rail would not only require a partnership between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, but also Federal support to enhance that state and local effort.

I am so pleased to be joining you on this Committee because the Committee's work is, of course, so focused on expanding economic opportunity.

The nature of the threat is always changing, always evolving, and of late I think we all agree that there has just been a disturbing rise in homegrown terrorism.

I am particularly grateful to this Subcommittee for the work it has done.

Certainly, we are all concerned about the terrorism that is a threat from faraway places.