One of the key suggestions was taking steps to ensure that our communities are places where people want to live and to work.

That is why last year Senator Schumer and I introduced the Community Regeneration, Sustainability, and Innovation Act.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks for holding the hearing and for your leadership on livability issues.

I am preparing to introduce legislation--called the DIPLOMA Act--that will help communities coordinate, integrate, and provide services to strengthen student achievement.

All of us have just come back to the Senate after a Memorial Day work period, where most of us were traveling our States, meeting with people. I was in Toledo, Youngstown, Cleveland, and around much of my State. While we have seen signs of…

I hope that in light of the case you made... this brings us to real consensus on not what we do programmatically, but also on spending the money we need on early childhood education.

It is interesting, Madam Chairman, when I first heard that I was going to be on this Subcommittee, I said, 'Oh, gosh, contracting. That is pretty boring.' But with all due respect, it is getting more and more interesting because of the…

I am a little surprised to hear another health care debate comment. Last year, through much of the year, there was opposition--a lot of opposition--to the health care bill. Most of the opposition came about because of the kinds of things…

the red tape is just unbelievable.

Thank you for your leadership once again.

We are all pretty incredulous when we see the barriers for veterans' employment, and we clearly need to do more.

I can tell you, as somebody who is a JAG, serving also in this new capacity and my prior life as well, one of the top efforts that our office works on is veterans benefits--trying to put a benefit with a veteran.

IAVA supports this bill, which requires the VA to conduct outreach to veterans who reside in Appalachia.

I appreciate the leadership of my colleague from Delaware who understands this Wall Street reform perhaps better than anybody in the Senate, and has particularly led the charge on working on too big to fail meaning too big. That the size…

I am here today to express my unqualified support for the confirmation of Judge Timothy Black to be U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Ohio. I am proud to say that I worked closely with my fellow Ohioan, Senator Voinovich, to…

I have always felt that we need to use draconian sanctions immediately against Iran to ensure that they do not become nuclear-capable.

A bank that is $300 billion, $400 billion, $500 billion has all the economies of scale as a trillion dollar bank. The point they make about European--we cannot compete internationally--it is clear from what the Senator from Delaware said…

Look at the rate of growth. They did not grow a whole lot until the last 10 years, and look what happened. They are going to continue to grow since the Glass-Steagall repeal. The argument opponents of our amendment use most frequently is…

If the Senator would yield, I thank the Senator for bringing out that there is such broad support, as we are seeing, from economists as conservative as Alan Greenspan and as progressive as Bob Reich, and others, who say too big to fail…

So that means when one of the huge Wall Street banks--these six banks--is getting a three-quarters percent, roughly, interest rate differential--a bonus, perhaps--that means that banks in Delaware and Ohio that aren't so big are at a…

the Kaufman-Brown amendment, with 14 cosponsors, would scale back the six largest banks in the Nation, requiring them to spin off into smaller more manageable banks and maintain sufficient capital to cover their debts. These six banks'…

I hear, as we talk about the Brown-Kaufman amendment--and it has gotten increasing attention because an increasing number of people said too big to fail is too big and that if we allow these six banks--that chart the Senator showed…

I feel the delay is the biggest obstacle. We should be able to process these soldiers quickly and effectively.

we all agree our financial system should never again be on the brink of total collapse. We all agree we must never again allow Americans to fall victim to the unconscionable recklessness and unbridled greed we have seen over the last…

I thank the Senator from Delaware. It is so clear, first of all, that the Dodd bill is a huge step, a good step, a solid bill in reforming Wall Street. It is what we ought to do. There will be three or four major chances. One of them is…