I particularly want to thank my Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, for her tireless work on behalf of survivors

The Title IX system, while it is there for the redress of victims, it is there primarily to force college campuses to provide a safe and crime-free and discrimination-free campus.

The facts that according to one study nearly one in five women in college will be victims of sexual assault or attempted assault during their undergraduate careers should shake the conscience of all of us and it demands action.

I look forward to today's testimony and to identify areas where we can improve our criminal justice system and the way it responds to campus sexual assault.

I want to particularly compliment Senator Grassley and his top-notch staff who have worked with us tirelessly to put together what is truly a bipartisan bill.

What we really have to do in this complicated thicket of a juxtaposition of two systems is make sure that victims... get support and good information about the options that are available to them.

The criminal justice system, its purpose is in fact to hold perpetrators accountable and put them in prison.

Obviously, it is time to end the scourge of rape and sexual assault on American colleges and provide survivors the resources they need to recover and to hold these perpetrators accountable.

The University of Virginia experience should intensify and increase our determination to make this process worthy of the courage of survivors who do come forward.

I have been involved in helping to write the bill that Senator McCaskill and Senator Gillibrand and I have done

This bill will give them more choices, to go through the criminal process off-campus or a fair and uniform process with due process on campus.

Thank you, again, Senator Whitehouse for chairing today's hearing.

I strongly believe that we should require schools to provide comprehensive training to individuals who serve on a campus adjudication panel.

It is very important that we examine the role and responsibility of law enforcement in combating this scourge of sexual violence on our college campuses.

Again, if you look at Fukushima as an example of all the things that can go wrong that you cannot possibly imagine could go wrong, I was beginning to see it during Super Storm Sandy.

I definitely want to see updated reports. Also, the confluence of factors during Super Storm Sandy was very concerning.

The Pedestrian Safety Act takes a comprehensive approach to implementing safety improvements to prevent needless deaths and injuries to pedestrians and bicyclists.

A broad coalition representing consumer, health and safety groups, children and older adults, pediatricians, emergency nurses and walking and biking advocates supports the solutions proposed in S. 2284.

S. 2284, sponsored by Senator Gillibrand and others, takes a comprehensive approach to implementing safety measures to protect pedestrians and bicyclists.

The costs of inaction are enormous.

$1.6 billion in net economic benefit, which I wish my colleague was still here to hear these numbers.

Kids will eat if they are hungry.

Obesity statistics are staggering. One in three kids in our country are now obese or overweight.

The food we serve to the 31 million students who participate in school lunch programs is an important investment in the future of our country.

I am really worried about the obesity epidemic.