I want to welcome Senators Udall and Merkley, both here.

We are going to work with TVA, we are going to make sure it lives up to this, low-cost power.

Coal is absolutely necessary to keep this machine called America running.

A lot of environmental organizations, perhaps including the Southern Alliance, have called for coal combustion waste to be listed as hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, RCRA.

We look forward, frankly, to following the lead of Congress and the EPA at doing whatever is necessary to make sure something like this does not happen again.

I intend to ask Lisa Jackson, our EPA nominee, about her feelings on this matter.

I hope that we would just concentrate on the two things that are important, that is taking care of the victims and trying to preclude something like this from happening again.

What happened at Kingston was a tragedy, plain and simple.

The disaster in Tennessee proves the point that we cannot avoid the costs associated with managing coal ash.

Nobody wants anybody to lose their jobs but the fact is this doesn't fix the problem.

Nobody wants anybody to lose their jobs, but the fact is this doesn't fix the problem.

While accelerated by market sentiment, our decision to be regulated by the Federal Reserve is based on recognition that such regulation provides its members with full prudential supervision and access to permanent liquidity and funding.

And, with all the hysteria, all the fear, all the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? I believe it is.

This whole idea of global warming is something that has been brought up by certain groups who have a lot to benefit from it, and has nothing to do with real science.

I have been personally attacked by -- by Anderson Cooper. It's taking place right now, even this week, calling me every kind of name, all kinds of threats.

I'm part of the hippie generation, but the question is, should this be a priority for this body over the priority of women and children?

Anybody who puts a priority for a local project ahead of the best interest of this country, I believe is not fulfilling their oath to the office. And that's whether they are Republican or Democrat.

the process is controversial, complex, bureaucratic, and has not worked well.