Jay Rockefeller

it is a distinct honor and privilege for me to congratulate Thomas L. Birch, the legislative counsel and founding director, of the National Child Abuse Coalition, for his decades of service to children. After more than 30 years as head of…

Speaking specifically of digital forensics, she indicated that the Federal Government could hire every graduate that we produced in the area of digital forensics.

It's not just digital forensics that needs highly trained career professionals.

We're here today to investigate the science of forensics.

Thank you Chairman Rockefeller, Ranking Member Hutchison, and members of the Committee, for holding today's hearing.

I believe that Jessica Rosenworcel, the President's nominee to be FCC Commissioner, is up to the task, to say the very, very least.

It should be easy to tell the truth. It should be easy to say that you are not satisfying the needs of veterans, that the policy says that you should be or that you are but, in fact, that you are not and you know it.

I believe we must be diligent and honest about the challenges facing VA in caring for the invisible wounds of war for our veterans.

I hope, is Ajit Pai, an attorney, and like Jessica, has also worked at the FCC.

I thought at the time that, when it passed, that California would be way out, a high number in the percentage of classrooms which were covered.

She has earned the respect of both Democrats and Republicans.

I guess I will end with one of my least favorite words in the English language: something called metrics.

I know that each facility should have a designated coordinator for women veterans, and that is important.

Will you both promise me that you will support the e-Rate program?

removal of agent and broker commissions from the MLR calculation would be contrary to congressional intent.

I rise today to speak about the fossil energy funding in the Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Fossil energy is a critical resource that we should not and can not just throw away. Providing the majority of our energy, we need to use…

last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on whether to elevate the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This was an important hearing for the men and women of our armed services, and I am…

44,000 jobs in our state depend upon tourism. It brings in over $4 billion a year. That's huge for us.

The goal is to create and support jobs that will boost the U.S. economy at a time when our country so desperately needs visitors and the revenue they bring.

if this is really true, Madam Chair, that one out of every nine Americans is employed one way or another by tourism--I mean, it's just absolutely extraordinary.

I've always loved tourism, and I was a Governor of West Virginia for 8 years and that was sort of the most exciting because a lot of people would say, 'no, we don't want to come do business there' back then. It's different now.

This year has unfortunately shattered almost every weather record imaginable in the United States.

I value your commitment to public service, and I always say this because I mean it.

We can't seem to make bills pass well enough to satisfy the needs of the country.

I have been working with Senator Roger Wicker on bipartisan legislation to modernize the Federal spectrum relocation process.