Jonathan Jackson

Having served as Ambassador to Burkina Faso, I'm aware of the importance, if confirmed, of working with this committee and the Congress in order to advance United States interests in Malawi.

I appreciate the confidence the President and Secretary Clinton have placed in me by putting my name forward for your consideration.

Madam Secretary, while I understand tough choices must be made when it comes to cutting the budget, I wonder what led the administration's decision to cut funding to the WIA State and local program funding over other programs under…

I understand that the NIH Director plans on dismantling the NCRR.

We want to make sure children have a chance to fulfill their potential.

I appreciate your raising the question. I do want to hear an answer to the WIA question.

Congressman John Lewis and I are contemplating filing an amendment to the 1964 Civil Rights Act that would raise the idea of employment status.

I wonder what led the administration's decision to cut funding to the WIA State and local program funding over other programs under consideration?

Illinois is currently ranked the third highest recipient of LIHEAP funds, and my district continues to be the largest recipient of LIHEAP.

I wish I could bring this to your attention so that you could please try your best, consistent with the plan that we have been following at least for the last 10 years in the committee.

The Department of Education's position will be that it will be on the side of ensuring that every single child... will have the appropriate technology.

I am preparing to go the legal route, based upon historical precedence, to ensure that every single child... has access.

We will challenge that status quo. And so we want to make sure children have a chance to fulfill their potential.

Isn't there a point when just for, frankly, our own credibility's sake we should walk away, have other alternatives, strengthen other alternatives--I mentioned one, the Community of Democracies--and not continue to pretend that the U.N. is…

Shouldn't the U.S. finally walk away from and stop paying, we continue to pay billions of dollars over the years to the U.N. that has an organization like this Human Rights Council, which obviously is a total farce.

It is important to note who is refusing to come to the negotiating table without preconditions. And that, unfortunately, are the Palestinians.

I can't imagine why the United States would even participate in producing any Security Council product.

Without the state of Israel, America would be far less safe.

Israel is America's aircraft carrier, so to speak, our friendly partner aircraft carrier of democracy and freedom and strength to stop common enemies, like Iran.

The House passed H.R. 1, an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2011 that made huge reductions in global food security, climate technology funds, and MDBs, multilateral development banks.

High unemployment in our own country... could lead to significant number of American people waking up one day without faith or belief in their Government's capacity to solve the nation's problems?

He failed to mention unemployment one time.

Unemployment is a significant factor in people losing faith in their government.

I truly believe that ending unemployment will solve a lot of the problems that our country faces.

For most of my tenure in Congress, I have advocated for full employment.