Bob Casey

This is work that will live on well after your time here.

In light of the floods or because of the floods, was there any diminution in the productive capacity of that plant?

I guess I have a couple of questions. One is, how do we measure results of all of those efforts?

It wasn't that the plant was adversely impacted?

In the absence of any legislative change in Pakistan, are there ways right now that the border security, border interdiction, could be beefed up on the Afghan side?

The strategic dialogue here in the United States... is critically important to continue that dialogue.

The one concern that we all have is that there must be a sense of urgency, and it has to be a sense of urgency within and throughout several countries, including our own.

Given the low level of usage for ammonium nitrate fertilizer in Pakistan's domestic agricultural use, the customs data indicates that import levels far exceed domestic usage and thus may have been legally transshipped onward to Afghanistan.

If you had a full ban in Afghanistan, what's your sense of the implications of that?

Thank you for your invitation to testify today on the critical issue of impeding the flow of ammonium nitrate in South Asia.

I hope we can continue to both monitor and push hard on that as best we can.

I think it would be very helpful for us in terms of guidance, because we don't want at the end of these hearings and this debate not to have asked your help.

We're looking after the taxpayer here and that's what my friends on the other side who aren't here should read.

Congressional committees must provide oversight to ensure that tax dollars are spent lawfully, efficiently and effectively.

We need to look very closely at how the executive branch--in this case the Department of Education--is spending taxpayers' money.

To ensure that taxpayer dollars are being spent effectively on educating the students attending for-profit schools.

This is about taxpayers and it's about students.

I disagree with those who would suggest that you or any other Senator is attempting to take down an industry.

When we're approaching this topic--and there's a heated debate here, there's no question about that.

It seems to me they're moving in a direction to try to put more stringent requirements on the industry where there appears to be problems.

The second group of Americans we're deeply concerned about here are students, what result do they get, what happened to them along the way.

I think we've got to keep our eye on the two most important groups, at least in my judgment. No. 1 are taxpayers and No. 2 are students.

By collecting this information, you have placed the emphasis on facts and hard data and I think that's extremely important.

As Senators, we're held accountable by the people back in our home States who pay taxes.

Basically, in this article we have a news organization-- among many--that is saying donor names are being kept secret. The other problem we have, of course, is foreign nationals are coming into the United States and spending money to…