Antigovernment forces continue to target prominent Iraqis for assassination.

I would urge you, upon confirmation, to use every bit of energy and persuasion and cajoling and anything else you can bring to bear on the leadership in Sri Lanka to get results.

I hope that we can find a way to move forward on the legislation--S. 296, the Preserving Access to Lifesavings Medicines Act--that Senator Klobuchar and I introduced earlier this year.

I wanted to go back to your written testimony about prevention.

If you have been abused, tell someone . . . get help!

If you had the opportunity to enact a Federal law today that did three things, what are the most important three elements of that legislation in terms of what we can do to prevent this from happening again?

We welcome the Speak Up to Protect Every Abused Child Act, introduced by Senator Casey.

We need to eliminate that kind of confusion. The Speak Up bill will make our laws more clear and help us get to the crimes we need to stop.

Child abuse is the ultimate betrayal, isn't it, the ultimate betrayal of a child, when every child has, and should have, a reasonable expectation of safety and security.

Senator Burr has a longstanding and persistent reputation for standing up for vulnerable populations.

We have got to dedicate ourselves now to the right policies, the right legislation to really protect our children.