I am hopeful that should you be confirmed, we will find ways to achieve common goals to promote equal opportunity.

opening statement

Numbers aren't telling the whole story in this case.

This bill takes the small business definition down from 50 employees that are presently covered by FMLA, which is not paid leave, down to 15.

Yet, most Americans who want to protect themselves by vaccination have been left in the lurch and told that a supply of vaccines may not even be available before the pandemic is over.

I'm really worried about--I'm curious as to why this legislation is changing the number from 50 people down to 15 people.

I can remember when Senator Byrd and Senator Dodd and Senator Kennedy and I were in a room trying to work out some of the problems of this.

I think anybody that's infected with it considers it a very vital factor.

Of course, I'm hearing from the people that are standing in line for clinics, and then getting up to the front of the line and finding out that there isn't enough vaccine there to take care of them and their children, some waiting in line…

No, they have not.

I think we probably ought to make all those corrections.

I am particularly concerned about the H1N1 pandemic, at the moment.