Kirsten Gillibrand

We believe the program would produce technologies that would dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of existing natural gas-fired electric generating units.

The Natural Gas Supply Association asks that you support 5.2900, the Gas Turbine Efficiency Act of 2009, introduced late last year by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).

The Gas Turbine Efficiency Act of 2009 highlights the importance of increasing dramatically the efficiency of both future natural gas fired gas turbine products and the existing gas turbine fleet.

Since 2002, they have been shut out of VA care for Agent Orange related illness and this legislation corrects that injustice.

Perhaps the most emotional issue for our membership is the clear suffering of what we believe is an extraordinary rate of birth anomalies and abnormally high rates of disease and adverse health care conditions in the children, and in the…

VVA particularly thanks Senator Gillibrand of New York for introducing this proposed legislation.

We believe that all veterans exposed to the deadly herbicide should be granted these presumptions.

We urge this distinguished Committee and the Senate to take the necessary steps to pass this bill as soon as possible.

It's long overdue that we afford them the benefits that they have earned.

Mr. Chairman, Thank you for holding this hearing today on the Agent Orange Equity Act of 2009, legislation that I have introduced to ensure benefits for hundreds of thousands of Navy veterans who are afflicted with devastating health…

IAVA strongly supports S. 1940, which requires the VA to complete a study of the effects of Agent Orange on the children of Vietnam veterans.

Support the Agent Orange Equity Act of 2009.

We can use these schools as the focal point for community services, so when we get the children into the schools, we can use it as a delivery mechanism for vaccinations, for health care, for aid, for food, anything that families need to…

Haiti has a 52-percent illiteracy rate, and these are some of the grave challenges.

I'd also like to address the issue of orphans.

One of the areas of my gravest concern are the children of Haiti.

Do you think it should, though?

So the Congress needs to encourage them not just to move into different areas, but to move a little bit more quickly.

I was most alarmed when I read a New York Times article in March that said the Federal Government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants, and other benefits over the past decade to foreign and international…

I am worried with exports because of dual-use issues.

And, Mr. President, I ask if Senator Schumer would also agree that in our State and many other States these agencies provide valuable services to students and families?

I would also like to extend a thank you to Senator Gillibrand for her strong work in representing our State.

But without continued congressional advocacy for this important estuary, we feel that the efforts to restore the Sound will continue to limp along.

We appreciate our partnerships with the U.S. EPA, other Federal agencies, our counterparts in Connecticut, local governments, not for profit organizations, and as you can well imagine, a very committed citizenry.

Thank you, Chairman Cardin, for holding this very important hearing and for the opportunity to speak on these issues that are so important to my home State.