The administration is right now examining a reorganization of export-related agencies.

We have fallen short as a Nation in scaling up after we out-compete and out-innovate.

If we're going to cut taxes and continue to cut taxes on the wealthiest people in this country, and continue to underfund the important parts of Government, we're going to lose that scientific edge.

FSS is a program with relatively little expense that has made a huge difference.

I actually think this is more a State and local responsibility. It is best a State and local program versus a Federal responsibility.

Are our U.S. Foreign Commercial Service (FCS) offices properly aligned with the NEI?

Can we work together with local law enforcement to perhaps create that in Ohio so that we can join much of the rest of the country in that kind of assistance?

I appreciate just about everything you do.

I think that is going to bring a lot of cost savings that I think opponents to the healthcare bill have not recognized.

I appreciate Senator Pryor's concern about children's GME. I also am concerned.

A low birth weight baby in the first year of life costs on the average $51,000, putting aside the human cost to the child, to the baby, the family, and everyone else.

I hope that you will revisit this issue as it comes forward.

That kind of preventive care, that kind of patient safety... will clearly help us restrain healthcare costs.

None of that was scored as we know, the work that Senator Mikulski did and Senator Harkin and others.

Eighty-nine percent of first generation students--89 percent leave college without a degree after 6 years, a terrible waste of human talent, a terrible waste of the future potentially, and a terrible waste of dollars.

I have to respectfully disagree with your analysis of the budget and agree with Senator Collins.

When I got down here, there was an $11.95 trillion national debt. It is over $14 trillion in a year.

S. 238, the Fishery Impact Statement Honesty Act introduced by Senator Scott Brown and co-sponsored by Senators Snowe and Collins brings focus to another very important issue.

Because a basic purpose of Amendment 16 was to make the enormous and complex transition from the DAS effort-based management system to the sector 'catch share' system, there was a great deal of uncertainty about what the social and…

we have all watched the news stories--from Madison, WI; Columbus, OH; Trenton, NJ, and other places around the country--where public employees, when you really analyze it, are paid more or less, including benefits and depending on the…

I want to hear from you more than I want to hear from us.

There are 95 one-stops in Ohio and 3,000 nationwide. Many, if not all of them, will have to close their doors if the proposed $3.8 billion in cuts to workforce investment pass Congress.

The delay is what is really crushing our soldiers and their morale when it comes to getting the care and service that they need.

The Government of Guatemala has not taken steps to remedy its failures to enforce labor laws.

I think we are having a hearing because we are worried and concerned about the oversight.