Timothy H. Bishop: “The debt burden is staggering. The cost is far too high.”

I hope that we can somehow collectively get to the point where we hold student athletes to the same--or hold coaches to the same standards we hold student athletes.

Our former Senator from the State of New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts.

I hope we can all agree that is a good thing, and I hope we can also all agree that that improvement would not have happened were it not for the Clean Water Act.

My fondest hope as I leave the Congress is that the way in which this committee has conducted its business will come to characterize the way the Congress as a whole conducts its business.