Hunger pangs shouldn't be subject to shipping schedules.

Sometimes it seems that we lose sight of why we have a food aid program in the first place. It isn't to subsidize growers, shippers, or NGOs. It is to prevent men, women, and children in the developing world from starving to death.

But the right thing to do is to enact sensible reforms that save taxpayer money and, most importantly, save lives.

We can save hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars by purchasing food aid closer to the destination countries.

Since 1954, the Food for Peace Program has fed more than 1 billion people around the world and saved countless lives.

This plan has garnered bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and from groups as disparate at the Heritage Foundation and Oxfam.

Monetization is also exceedingly wasteful. According to the GAO, at least 25 cents of every dollar is lost during this process.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

On May 24, 2011, President Obama issued a memorandum on Federal fleet performance that requires all new light duty vehicles in the Federal fleet to be alternate fuel vehicles, such as hybrid, electric, natural gas, or biofuel, by September…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

On May 24, 2011, President Obama issued a Memorandum on Federal Fleet Performance that requires all new light-duty vehicles in the Federal fleet to be alternate fuel vehicles, such as hybrid, electric, natural gas, or biofuel, by December…

I am intrigued by the part of your written testimony which lays out a proposed risk-based framework for a new legislative approach to compounding to ensure patient safety and health.

I want to first ask a New York question.

I support the government's efforts to read the public safety exception as broadly as they can.

I think the 'global war on terror' is a phrase which has had uses; it's had detriments.

I think our Constitution has served us well. I don't think there is an amendment necessary in this area.

It is possible to imagine a situation in which it would be safe for our country to, you know, release some of the folks at Guantanamo Bay.

I think we have more bipartisanship on this committee than virtually any other committee.

We need both men and women's voices to be heard to alter the actions of a very, very cruel, extreme Iranian regime.

I urge a yes vote for this amendment, and I yield back.

We continue moving ahead with a bill that now has over 330 co-sponsors.

I think we've identified here a real issue in which there are costs to a proposal that requires Mr. Tsarnaev or others...

It is critical that the administration aggressively impose all Iran sanctions.

It is my feeling that that could be done in a very genuine way.

I hope he does for Bolivia's sake. I hope he does for his sake and his leadership's sake.