Thank you, Mr. President. I rise in support of the Food and Drug Administration Reauthorization Act that we are now considering. Let me begin by commending Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray of the Senate Health, Education…

I just think if you could isolate... it would be important, again, to either verify what my foresters in Maine from the private sector have been telling me for years or not.

This has been a very informative hearing, and I thank you for your work and look forward to continuing to work on this problem with you.

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The cheapest forest fire of all is the one that doesn't occur.

today I am pleased to be joined by my friend and colleague from Delaware, Senator Chris Coons, in introducing the Reach Every Mother and Child Act of 2017. Our legislation would make it the policy of the United States to lead an effort to…

I would like to see some data that will either verify that or refute it.

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I rise to introduce a resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day. I am pleased to have been joined in sponsoring this resolution by the senior Senator from West Virginia, Senator Manchin, and 25 of…

But for the record, if you could supply that, I would like to see a comparison of how tax policy, grant policy and regulatory policy affects the two forks of the solution.

If gasoline were $.20 a gallon we would all be driving Humvees or something.

It is hard to beat free. It comes out of the sky.

I would say we also need better data to make better policy, and I find that very concerning for all of the work that we are doing here.

what can we do in federal policy to help in the areas that you are working on, whether it is tax policy, incentives or regulation?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to our expert witnesses who are joining us this morning, especially my constituent from Maine.

Can we just continue to absorb growing population in Phoenix and Los Angeles?

What bothers me is that the budget that was recently submitted by the Administration cuts the NOAA budget by 16 percent, cuts research in NOAA by 32 percent and even cuts the National Weather Service by 6 percent.