Bill Lee

If we increase the size of the pie, everyone is going to benefit.

We need a heck of a lot more students of color to not just graduate from high school, but go on to higher education.

We can't afford to let this happen. We can't afford to lose the brain power.

I just have to thank all of you.

I am really pleased to see the increase. I want to see if you are coming up or if we are close to a vaccine.

I want to see if you are coming up or if we are close to a vaccine; what types of new treatments do you envision with this increase of $52 million?

I want to see your budget doubled so that everybody can, first of all, be free of these diseases.

Thank you all of you for your work, for your efforts, really to save lives and to ensure the quality of life for everybody in our country.

The very leaders that this Congress and our administration and our predecessors supported have not put the interests of their people above their own parochial desire for power or for self-preservation.

We have also been very supportive of the regional--the so-called multinational task force.

We supported the U.N. Security Council's resolution calling for adding them to the sanctions list.

It is very important that the U.N. continue its involvement and the United States.

It is important that both sides, Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas, agree that a two-state solution is the ultimate outcome and achievable and what they are seeking, also.

I have legislation, actually, that I have introduced for several years now calling for Congress to go on record supporting a two-state solution and the peace process.

I believe that the two-state solution is the only option that is going to achieve peace and security in the region and, also, for the United States.

I have seen the lack of U.S. presence. And I do know China is very active in the Caribbean.

So often, the Caribbean has not been put in the proper place, in terms of our policy.

I think that is an important factor.

I am still, obviously, optimistic about making progress there.

I have believed that Americans should have the right to travel to Cuba, I mean, since the 1970s.

But it has in the past. And I am just wondering how we can get the information, this committee, this subcommittee, on where we are operating in this manner and what we are doing.

But that is after the fact, Mr. Lenhardt. I am talking about up front.

The contract--and we have talked about this--that Alan Gross was working on seemed to be perfectly reasonable.

I think this really puts a lot of our staff and contractors at risk, i.e., Alan Gross.

Your work is so important in terms of the development of not only underdeveloped countries, but just in terms of the development of human beings so that they can live decent, healthy lives.