Mr. Podonsky, in the event of a potential future strike at one or more SNM I sites...

the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 directs the Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of the NNSA to develop a comprehensive, Department of Energy (DOE)-wide plan to identify and implement the recommendations of…

I was troubled to hear that one issue unaddressed in the report may be that some within the protective force are not taking advantage and/or using the employer contributing vehicles to save for their retirement.

I rise to speak for a few minutes while we are in a quorum call and trying to decide how we are going to proceed on this bill, to speak about a very important amendment that, hopefully, at some time as this debate moves forward, could be…

Madam President, I spoke at length about this amendment today, so it is not necessary for me to go into a great deal of detail. I offer it on behalf of several Senators from the gulf coast in order to help extend the placed-in-service…

the regulations are already in place--these regulations are impacting the red, white, and blue jobs that have powered our country

I want to commend you for your work on your Rivers Initiative.

We're losing a football field equivalent of land every 30 minutes.

I want to thank you for your commitment to preserving what's special about America; the cultural treasures of our country.

There's going to be fierce opposition to taxing this industry, because it is counter to creating jobs and counter to energy independence.

I think I demonstrated at our last meeting that, of all of the spills that have occurred in the entire oceans in the last 30 years, you could contain it in the Reflecting Pool between here and the Washington Monument.

it might have been a better--listen first and then implement, rather than implement and then see what the impacts are going to be

the current path of the program is not sustainable for the animals, the environment, or the taxpayer.

I want to work with you on a very cost-effective solution for this, because the current system that we have, I believe, is broken, it's expensive, and I don't think the taxpayers will sustain it.

It seems very contrary to our stated goals of being more energy sufficient in the United States.

Can I just have your, just brief 30 seconds on your commitment to helping us find a way forward?

the way that the United States of America--under both Republican and Democratic rule--have essentially dealt with the Land and Water Conservation Fund as essentially a 50-year broken promise to America.

But we have 500 million acres, they're now down to a measly, you know, 31 million--what's, you know, what's happening in the other 470 million acres?