KATHLEEN A. DAHLKEMPER

What we need is an ability to keep watch on critical materials, anticipate problems and create policies that head off rather than respond to a crisis.

I strongly believe that we would work out a compromise bill on an issue that affects every American.

Laura was a healthy 41-year-old woman when she spent 5 weeks working at Ground Zero in the months following 9/11. Now she has an incurable cancer and two tumors. She has had numerous cancerous lesions removed from her mouth and her…

I just want to quote from Business Week, April 8, 2010. This is a quote by Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com. ``When you take it all together, the response to the recession was massive, unprecedented, and ultimately…

The new health care reform legislation will strengthen Medicare for the 118,000 beneficiaries in my district and for 45 million individuals across this country. Seniors in Medicare will receive free preventative care under this new reform…

I think it is just important for people to understand the issues are different for small businesses than large businesses, and our agenda, the things that we have been talking about tonight, I think, bring forward the fact that we realize…

I think that we need to make sure it is funded and funded in a way that our communities don't lose the funding if their States don't have the money. So I'm glad that you're working on that, and I appreciate your work in that area. I'm also…

My new legislation, the Military Families Job Continuity Act, offers a $500 tax credit to any military spouse who has to renew or transfer a professional license when a permanent change-of-station order takes their family across State…

As we look at our country and look where we have been and how we got to where we are not just today but in the 200-plus years, it's our ingenuity, it's our resourcefulness, and it's our strong work ethic that really has always propelled…

While I appreciate and understand the need for venture capitalists in certain areas, particularly in biotechnology, I am concerned that throwing open the door to all SBIR programs without any limit might unfairly disadvantage small…

SBIR facilitates high-risk, high-reward research that does--not only spurs innovation but also creates jobs.

The impending expiration of the Small Business Innovation Research Program in July compels us to examine the program before we act to reauthorize it.

With the obesity rates that continue to climb, with the health concerns, especially with high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes, which are now growing at alarming rates with our youth, it is not just up to us in Congress to…