We legislate around here for everybody.

Senator King's Small Dam Exemption Act is an important initial step toward better acknowledging the value and importance of these resources.

I completely agree and we incorporated changes in our own law in Maine when I was there to do just this.

And that is when we get into these 10-, 12- and 20-year permitting processes which really do not serve any purpose, in my view.

As I recall, most of your hydro is run-of-the-river though, isn't it, or do you have storage?

S. 677 looks like a very sensible bill in terms of it providing a coordination of a one-stop shop.

So that would definitely be a place where you could pair that with a wind project?

I think this is a problem generally.

I appreciate your testimony, and I appreciate your management of those great resources in Maine.

You never asked for a briefing or attended a briefing or read the intelligence reports?

What we found in that investigation is that companies were able to ward off competition by putting their drugs in closed distribution systems.

The company ensured the drug was considered the gold standard--the best drug available for the condition it treats, ensuring that physicians would continue to prescribe the drug, even if the price increased.

We, on the Intelligence Committee, want to know the answers to those questions. And we have begun to request information from the attorney general to allow us to get to the bottom of that.

Let's find out if there were tapes and if there were, let's have them.

I think that's very important for the American people to understand, that this is very much a forward-looking investigation in terms of how do we understand what they did and how do we prevent it.

I don't think Putin is a Republican or a Democrat. He's an opportunist.

For months the president has been dismissing the whole matter as a hoax and a fake and a witch-hunt, and those kinds of things.

Putin is not a Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not a Democrat.