Making sure we get it right is terribly important.

I think we really need to be creative about how we put incentives in place.

Senator Warner is a big proponent of yours, big supporter of yours, and he wanted to be here to introduce you.

I want to add my strong support of Inez.

I can't think of a better person, on a host of these issues, to take them on in this new, important role, than Inez Tenenbaum.

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 terms of humidity, than folks we've got in Virginia.

I hope you will continue to also press to make sure that we can work with you to find relief for these families.

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 Roads being closed is small?

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 carriers by 2040.

I have long believed that if we approached the criminal justice system with two principal objectives, that a great deal could be done to restrain it.

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 breadth and in its depth of understanding.

The national disgrace of our present criminal justice system does not present us with the horrifying immediacy of the 9/11 attacks.

It is in the interests of every American, in every community across this land, that we thoroughly examine our entire criminal justice system.

The disintegration of this system day by day, year by year, and the movement toward mass incarceration... is dramatically affecting millions of lives.

We find ourselves as a Nation in the midst of a profound, deeply corrosive crisis that we have largely been ignoring at our peril.

Congress can certainly take action to prohibit the EPA from acting on that.

The cap-and-trade proposal is really an $846 billion national energy tax that will hit nearly every American.

Cap-and-trade legislation has the potential to devastate the agriculture community with higher operating costs and destroy ways of life in rural America.