This does not change the course that we have been on.
We have to get the numbers right, we have to get the policy right, and we have to get the process right.
The greatest threat to our security is our debt.
Any plan for us to get out of this difficult fiscal hole in which we have put ourselves as a Nation must be a plan that will be implemented ...
The time for delay, the time for gridlock, the time for debate is over, and we must take action.
Latin America is not our back yard; it is our neighborhood in a sense, and there's a very important distinction to make.
I just want to associate myself with those remarks.
it's long past time for a fundamental shift, I think, in how we think and relate to this important region of the world
Thank you very much for holding this important hearing.
If the brave people who introduced this bill to repeal this had voted with us on September 14, 2010, we would not even be here talking about...
We want this done and we are going to continue--we are going to try to hang it on every bill that goes through here.
This was buried in a 3,000 page healthcare bill that was shoved down the throat of the American people on a straight party line vote.
We don't know as much of the details as we should.
Many of us come from parts of the country where ammonium nitrate is a very common commodity.
I respectfully request that you hold the record open, Chairman Casey, so that I can submit questions for the record.
If that same thing happened between the United States and China... and they cut us off--what is that going to do to your business?
I think greater attention needs to be given to it.
We will not see significant progress on clean energy technologies until we are serious about the production of the minerals used to produce ...
