The only thing I would ask, Inez, is that--a lot of this is taking place in Louisiana and Florida--they have different climate issues, in te...
I hope you will continue to also press to make sure that we can work with you to find relief for these families.
the proposal to extend the time to build nuclear-powered aircraft carriers from 4 to 5 years will lead to a force of 10 operational aircraft...
Are you aware of any new information that would lead you to differ with the Navy's previously stated assessment that the risk of Hampton Roa...
The national disgrace of our present criminal justice system does not present us with the horrifying immediacy of the 9/11 attacks.
We find ourselves as a Nation in the midst of a profound, deeply corrosive crisis that we have largely been ignoring at our peril.
I have long believed that if we approached the criminal justice system with two principal objectives, that a great deal could be done to res...
I would like to say that we worked, along with staff on this Committee, to bring a panel today that I think is truly extraordinary in its br...
The disintegration of this system day by day, year by year, and the movement toward mass incarceration... is dramatically affecting millions...
Our goal was to look at whether or not treatment and prevention should be priorities rather than simply punishment, and they are.
It is in the interests of every American, in every community across this land, that we thoroughly examine our entire criminal justice system...
This bill will raise electric bills across the country by hindering the development of traditional energy sources while also, ironically, li...
we are not just talking about what happens here in the United States, because it is one atmosphere, it is one globe.
Congress can certainly take action to prohibit the EPA from acting on that.
And look at what we are doing to rural America in limiting access to other forms of energy that farmers, ranchers, and businesses that opera...
I hope you are right about that, Mr. Secretary, because I am very concerned that the countries that we compete with around the world, where ...
You talk about the transition to a green economy. We are all in favor of that. You talk about the creation of green jobs. But isn't a fact t...
The cap-and-trade proposal is really an $846 billion national energy tax that will hit nearly every American.