Todd Russell Platts

Before I conclude, I would just reference that on a family visit to Chicago this past summer, we think of Chicago as an urban center and city, and what a wonderful city it is, but my boys also had the chance to fish in the Chicago River as…

Again, I urge a ``yes'' vote in support of the resolution. I am honored to join with the gentlemen from Michigan and Georgia, and I am certainly delighted and honored to associate myself with the remarks of the gentleman from California…

Access to nutritional foods and a healthful diet is an important component in ensuring children receive the nutritional needs necessary to be successful at school.

I want to sincerely thank you for your presence here today and taking a tremendous personal tragedy and working to make it a true public good.

The safety of our nation's children is probably one of our most, if not most important responsibilities of government.

Too many families do not receive the early support they need to ensure that their children have appropriate and healthy early childhood experiences.

A federal investment in evidence-based home visiting, as proposed by Chairman McDermott, Congressman Davis, and Congressman Platts, will ensure that more families in communities across the country are given the opportunity to participate…

If we move forward with the Administration's proposal to convert all schools to the Direct Lending program, how can the Department of Education ensure that smaller schools will get the same loan servicing assistance that their larger…

Would you consider amending the definition of 'youth' on next year's FAFSA so that all homeless students born after January 1, 1987 can qualify for financial aid?

But by taking a comprehensive approach to nutrition, our children, families and communities will all be healthier.

So what you are doing won't just benefit the children, as we know from seat belts. It will ultimately benefit the parents, too.

Over the last ten years, obesity in the United States has been increasing at a staggering rate.

It is vitally important that all of our youth receive a challenging and rewarding educational experience regardless of the setting.

The goal of most alternative settings is to provide youth who struggle in mainstream society another opportunity to succeed educationally.

But the long-term return is dramatically more than what it is going to cost, and that is the difficulty for us as a government...

And I think it is the political will of us as a nation, especially at the early stages and where we are failing so many kids...

When it is our children, we find the political will to do what we need to do.

I urge a ``yes'' vote, and again thank all the teachers of our great Nation for their devotion to our Nation's children and for their commitment to bettering the lives of those children and, in doing so, strengthening our Nation as a whole.

I certainly am pleased to be part of moving this legislation, the GIVE Act; but I do want to associate myself with the gentleman from Michigan, the ranking member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, on the importance of us…

I want to thank Mr. Lampson again for his leadership on this important reauthorization which works to keep our Nation's children safe. None of us would like to even think about any children in our lives, whether it's our own children, our…

I will be glad to take a more in-depth look at that amendment. I think we all have a shared purpose, but we will look at the specifics of the amendment.

I certainly appreciate the difficult fiscal times we are in. The gentleman and his staff have done a great job of trying to balance all the concerns, and certainly I appreciate the gentleman's efforts and his staff's efforts to address…

I requested that his subcommittee authorize the first phase of an important 5-phase project to replace seriously deteriorated family housing at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, which is in my district. The first…

With my remaining time, I just want to touch on one other issue, a very important issue, completely separate, and that is to voice my pleasure at the support of this House in the passage of H.R. 503, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. I…

This bill expresses the sense that Congress strongly supports shaken baby syndrome prevention and urges all Americans to educate themselves about shaken baby syndrome and the techniques to prevent it. This cause was presented to me by one…