Thank you, Mr. Secretary, not only for your testimony but for your leadership.

I would urge other financial institutions to do the same thing, to give us a chance.

I think we have to begin to think about that.

Do you agree that we must leverage the ability of States, institutions, businesses, and philanthropic organizations to partner together and provide necessary aid and support for students and that the Federal Government cannot be the only…

I have long worked to improve and fund the LEAP program. As such, I was disappointed that the President's fiscal year 2011 budget eliminated funding for LEAP.

I think Senator Lieberman's acknowledgement of your testimony is very accurate. It is very sobering and very appropriate.

I think, ultimately, Iraqi nationalism will trump Iranian meddling.

The election was successful, very much so.

I think the Iranians lost the election.

The Iraqi people are pretty clear that they don't want a government that's made in Tehran.

I think the fact that we made a good-faith engagement with Iran has actually brought more of the international community with us now that we are moving on the pressure track.

A sanctions approach is not a magic wand.

I think our military forces with high confidence could undertake such an operation. But, I think that there would be consequences to our readiness and to the challenges that we already face in this Nation economically to pay for a war, et…

The only absolutely dispositive way to end any potential weapons program would be to physically occupy their country and to disestablish their nuclear facilities.

I am going to thank Senator Hagan for her gracious hospitality. This is payback for not leaving you in Afghanistan.

we are here to move forward on extending unemployment benefits, which is long overdue. They expired April 5. We have thousands and indeed hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens across the Nation who need this assistance. In my State…

I thank Senator Stabenow. We are here to attempt to extend unemployment benefits for a brief period of time so Americans do not get caught up in the expiration of these benefits on April 5. This has been a repeated struggle. We have had…

We have a huge debt at the moment. I think if you look at the major contributing factors of that debt, they would include tax cuts that were unpaid for, supported strongly by the Republicans, which went dramatically to the richest…

even though we have made an extraordinary advance in health care reform, we still have millions of Americans who are without jobs and in need of unemployment insurance. We are in a situation that requires action. Early this month, we were…

on April 5, the extension that was recently voted for extended unemployment compensation benefits will expire. We need to at least provide for a temporary extension while we await the resolution of a much broader piece of legislation that…

I had the great privilege of observing Senator Dodd as he stepped into the breach for Senator Kennedy and did an extraordinary job--hour after hour after hour--listening to the comments, the suggestions of both sides of the aisle. I think…

First, I wish to begin by recognizing the extraordinary leadership of majority leader Harry Reid, Chairman Baucus, Chairman Dodd, and Chairman Harkin to get us to this point. Commonsense and cost-effective health care reform is now the law…

Senator Reed, we are on the right track now.

their lives are on the line whenever they do that.

Violence and progress coexist in Afghanistan, and sometimes the violence blinds us to the progress.