Bob Casey

This bill is about jobs--maintaining jobs and creating jobs!

It's absolutely necessary that we pass this legislation.

The American people want us to do our best to solve problems. They really don't care about our political fights; they want us to solve problems.

That's not true; it's nowhere near true.

I'm proud to have introduced Senate bill 3157, the Create Jobs and Save Benefits Act, which I believe contains within it a strategy to deal with a very real problem and a very real threat to job creation and job preservation in the near…

We believe, as a country, that every child who is born in this country has a light inside them.

Only 4 percent of title I money, goes to early childhood education.

I would like, either through the Casey Foundation or Save The Children, to start a report card on child well-being.

An investment in a child in the dawn of his or her life... has positive benefits for the child and their family.

I think everyone on this committee at one point or another in their comments and questions have raised the issue about how penny-wise, pound-foolish it is.

IAVA supports this bill that aims to improve training for VA employees and contractors in the use of low-level radiation therapies.

You need to make a decision on resettlement strategy, about what you're going to do with these people over time.

The world is ready to help, but I'm not sure the world has been presented with the kind of concentrated leadership.

Clearly, the people of Haiti need to be empowered and engaged in this effort as we go forward.

The most important thing to do immediately, which can be done immediately, is to direct that there be joint walking patrols by the United Nations police and the Haitian National Police in the major camps, day and night, on a regular basis…

I endorse the notion that Haiti can, and it should, hold elections in November, as planned.

Our challenge now is to maintain that sense of urgency.

Helping Haiti achieve its goal of recovery, reconstruction, and refounding will place enormous demands on the United States, the United Nation, the OAS and other members of the international community.

We must do everything possible to guarantee that that can happen seamlessly.

We try to establish a framework within which we can have democratic and competent governance, with adequate security, economic growth, and environmentally sustainable programs.

I guess--what can you tell us about, or what's your--what's your sense of, or--and in addition to, what's your vision for--this--the ability of this government to improve day-to-day governance in the delivery of services in conjunction…

I think that's critically important. When we see the devastating effect of the hurricanes--that the hurricane season can have, I think it's important that we know that.

I think it would help the committee to be able to have, maybe in written form, an outline of the hurricane preparation.

We're grateful for that, and especially at a hearing; we often don't have a personal witness in the ways that you've described.

There have been a lot of speeches given about how this event...has to become sort of the principal organizing moment.