Children may be more susceptible than adults to the respiratory effects of formaldehyde.

I would like to commend Senator Pryor for his efforts at oversight and for bringing attention to this issue.

I respectfully recommend the following: One, that Congress make sure that its recent legislation calling for a formaldehyde study in textiles and apparel be conducted in a timely fashion.

We're not asking them to do something which is unreasonable, we're just saying to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 'Don't wait for GAO; update your research, give some guidance, set forth some basic standards that might even not…

I don't understand why it's apparently such a big problem to have the GAO--or, to have the Consumer Product Safety Commission do at least one or more of the following:

I hope that our efforts today will change this fact and that in the end this hearing will result in stronger protections for children and families.

tropical deforestation, stopping it is essential if we're going to stabilize our climate.

I look forward to working with the administration on how the United States can better assist developing countries to adopt low-carbon economic growth strategies and improve agricultural production.

Copenhagen is an enormously important framework, but if we get a Copenhagen deal done, in my mind that's the start, that's not the finish.

I believe this issue is as important as any we'll face in this Congress.

I think it's further evidence of the chairman's commitment to these issues for so many decades.

There are particular industries where there's a real concern about so-called 'carbon leakage.'

the U.S. target in 1990 levels is not going to cut it.

Well, thank you very much, that's very good advice. Thank you.

I wanted to, first of all, thank each of the witnesses for your testimony, for the perspective that you bring to this issue from long years of experience.

Senator Lugar and I introduced the Global Food Security Act, and it was just moved out of committee yesterday.

Well, thank you. We'll never know the exact number, but at least we're in agreement that there is a consensus, at least about a range.

I think now we are beginning to realize that CEOs know this now better than they used to, that if we don't work on those issues in the dawn of a child's life, you can't even begin to talk about an educated person or a high-skilled person…

So how do you make that work in the context of a desire for national standards, the desire for a national commitment, with a tradition and the reality, not just a theory, but the reality of local control, local decisionmaking?

I am here to help these kids and all kids across the United States beat those odds.

Our Government is providing substantial help, here. The Obama administration has committed about $150 million to assist displaced Iraqis in this current fiscal year, 2009.

Which--well, depending on how you count it--but, this was--this was extraordinary.

What is our Government doing? ... the need for someone in the White House to be able to coordinate...

We cannot rush the return of the refugees, or rush the return of the IDPs, beyond a point where they're not comfortable.

How about with regard to what our Government's doing, vis-a-vis Syria? Is there more that we should be doing, in terms of any kind of new strategy or new initiative with regard to Syria?