if you live under the American flag, you should be treated equally.

the most important person in corporate America is touched by your decisions, and the poorest child in a classroom in a rural area or the inner city is touched by your decisions.

The Education Partnership Program is vitally important for supporting students from underserved communities as they study and receive advanced degrees.

I think there is a need to revisit the issue of whether Alaska and Hawaii can take care of what is happening in the Caribbean.

That warning center will not just be helpful to our territories in the Caribbean, but it will also be helpful to all the other people in that area.

But one could argue that the one in Hawaii could have told Alaska what was going to happen, or the one in Alaska was going to tell Hawaii what is going to happen, makes more sense than either of them can tell Mexico or Puerto Rico or the…

I am convinced that America is number one in the world, and yes, we have our set of competitors.

I don't have anything. Thank you.

I understand the desirability of having a tsunami warning center in the Caribbean from the standpoint of some, certainly from reassurance, to know that somebody is there, paying attention.

It's pretty embarrassing to those of us who advocate for NOAA to find out that those things we thought were agreed upon ended up not being agreed upon.

I would like to associate myself with Mr. Honda's comments about the MBDAs and the importance of keeping them strong.

In the future, with very tight budgeting, if Congress says spend money on this, there should be a good explanation as to why it wasn't spent on that.