I do want to say to you that you have some great people working in your agency, from Coast Guard to FEMA folks. We've had a lot of weather-related disasters in my State and these people have saved lives and been there time and again.

I am very pleased to be here today to have the opportunity to introduce Peter Rogoff as the President's nominee to be the next Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration.

I commend to you the nomination of Peter Rogoff to be our next Federal Transit Administrator.

I was disappointed to see that the President's budget didn't contain the second half of the funding required to retrofit the Coast Guard Icebreaker Polar Star.

The Winter Olympic Games are going to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia.

I did want to start by thanking you for finally budgeting some adequate levels of funding for the Pacific Northwest National Lab which is in my State.

I'm very concerned that if the United States doesn't have the proper tools and doesn't have a presence, we are going to be behind a lot of people very quickly.

I appreciate that the Economic Recovery package has money for this, but if we don't have long-term, sustained requests for beyond the timeframe of the Economic Recovery package, we're going to be in a very bad place.

I believe that this administration is committed to making working families a priority once again in this country.

we are going to have to figure out how to do that in the future.

I believe that adult education and literacy is a very important component of the workforce system.