I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 23, 2011, at 10 a.m…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 23, 2011, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 23, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. in room G50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 23, 2011, at 10 a.m., to conduct a hearing entitled ``Reauthorization of the National Flood…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 23, 2011, at 10 a.m., in room SD-215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Health Care…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 23, 2011, at 10 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. committee on foreign relations

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 23, 2011, at 10 a.m., to hold a hearing entitled, ``Evaluating Goals and Progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan.''…

Demands for all kinds of food assistance, from food banks to emergency funding for food, or SNAP, are unprecedented and the demand has grown.

Trafficking is, in fact, the biggest threat to this program and it is so important that you double-down, if you will.

It is good to see a lot of the children here and their families coming out and supporting diabetes research.

I have been very critical of the FDA and its delay because there needs to be consistency, stability, and certainty in the process for development and the ability to find cures.

thank you to her and the agency for finally realizing that there is a problem and trying to fix it.

Senate Republicans, in their typically unanimous way, just blocked this Chamber from even voting on the Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011. We heard Senator Boxer point out how many Republicans have supported the Economic…

Does NOAA's new policy on the use of the AFF meet the specific prescriptions of the law mentioned in your report?

protecting our national fish stocks from over-fishing is a national imperative that requires good management backed by consensus science.

That is why we got into this mess. There was no policy authorizing it, according to the IG's report.

There still are opportunities to provide that kind of a bonus.

Is it common around other agencies to have that type of payment for the high stakes, supposedly 'high stakes' games?

I would say that those bonuses are generally related to job performance over the course of a year.

Well, what does that mean for the average listener, bilateral?

So it is inappropriate, but they are still doing it, apparently, from what we just heard.

I believe what the Secretary was getting at in his finding there was that this was largely a failure of procedure.

I will try to provide a voice to the many fishermen throughout New England.

I commend your bipartisanship in Chairing this Subcommittee.

while it is important to address the Federal budget deficit, too many Washington politicians have turned a blind eye to the U.S. trade deficit. Working families in Ohio and our Nation's manufacturers haven't forgotten about the devastating…