I want to thank all three of our witnesses for being here and for your testimony and for your public service.

There are few Members of Congress who match your commitment to protecting the health and safety of our Nation's coal miners.

You're talking about the situations where you have a new claim.

I believe that you're going to need substantially more resources for the work that you're doing.

What Veterans need now is for Congress to take action to reform the outdated claims processing system.

Thank you very much.

Is there anything you would hope we would do to either further incentivize or facilitate this kind of approach to MS, or do you think we are on the right track?

I want to thank you as well for sharing your own personal story about your mom.

I rise this afternoon to talk about the challenge we have to make sure every child in America who is eligible for one of the programs that help children have enough to eat and have nutritious food is getting served. The problem across the…

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I rise this afternoon to speak just for a couple moments--because we are limited in time to speak--about Cheryl Ann Krause who is the nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. I want to review her credentials, some of…

Are there any cases that you're aware of where parents re-homing their children are then criminally prosecuted?

So guidance rather than unfunded mandates.

I have legislation entitled the, 'Speak Up To Protect Every Abused Kid Act', and it's really to focus on this problem...

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Is there anything the panel would want to offer in terms of steps you hope would result from this hearing, especially, obviously, Federal legislation or action?

A resource of services or help you can get to provide some relief.

Sometimes, when we think of a Sandwich Generation, we think of one generation in the middle in between two others.

Well, even as we analyze the financial impact, the other ways we measure, or the other ways we assess this are almost incalculable.

If you have a particularly stressful, burdensome situation where the individual in her, say, her 40's or 50's, is caring for an older parent...

I guess in those circumstances, part of the tragic irony is that even when there is an adverse impact on the child...

I know there was the Pew study that we have looked at.

Raise the minimum wage, I mentioned before.

Not necessarily a resource toward which you can turn.

Making the ends meet becomes an almost 24-hour challenge.