It is alarming. I think that until reporting is made mandatory we will not not only know how many children are missing, but more importantly no one is looking for them.

Unfortunately there is a lack of regulations or laws that mandate the reporting, so it is really based on a voluntary system.

You know we could only speculate. I think the detective mentioned maybe one percent. I certainly would not dispute that.

there is a correlation for those, and again, we are talking about minors at the National Center, those who are reported as being victims of sexual exploitation.

No administration should be able to take taxpayer dollars and pick winners and losers and also at the same time refuse to tell the country what they did with the money, what their justification and rationale was, and they should also not…

Without transparency, without justification, and in my opinion without respect for the men and women who dedicated years of service in earning their retirement benefits, the treatment of salaried retirees is particularly troubling in…

To this date, the Administration has continued to try to thwart the lawsuit that has been filed by the Delphi salaried retirees, resisting requests for production of documents and discovery requests, and they have also resisted…

I want to thank Mr. Blumenauer for requesting this hearing.

We believe it is important to have responsible deficit reduction phase in across time, achieve the kind of results that we have talked about, and, at the same time, invest in jobs, invest in infrastructure, and that is the right way to…

So we are in agreement, it is an austerity budget.

I wish some of our colleagues on the other side were this excited when we were putting two wars on a credit card and having a prescription drug bill that was not paid for.