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The last Farm Bill, I think, was really good in terms of looking at energy issues, and the energy title in there has helped us advance in a lot of respects.

Congress is now on the brink of passing a landmark deal on legislation to reform Wall Street and prevent another financial crisis like the one we faced nearly 2 years ago. This legislation is an important and long overdue measure that will…

I think what this gentleman represents in terms of his view is completely contradictory to what the majority of my constituents and I am sure the majority of the constituents of the Senator from Wyoming would say with regard to how you…

454 days before the administration put forward this nominee, there have been 79 days since, and they are blaming Republicans for holding up this nominee--again, notwithstanding the fact that it was 454 days before they ever put it forward…

The problem they have is that 1.6 million people are employed by the British national health system, a huge employer in their country, so the economic impact, the political impact of making changes in that system is very difficult. That…

I would say to my friend from Arizona and to the leader that a cynic might also raise the issue of why it took the President 454 days to nominate Donald Berwick and then have a lot of his surrogates go on in front of the media and say: We…

I rise today in recognition of National Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiecstasia--HHT--Month to raise awareness of this public health threat and encourage greater prevention, diagnosis and treatment efforts. Hereditary Hemorrhagic…

We cannot lose sight that not only is this an economic and an environmental tragedy, but it's a human tragedy, first and foremost.

It's critical that they be held to account for the environmental/economic damages caused by the ongoing oilspill in the Gulf.

You've noted that state authorities have primary responsibility over gas distribution pipelines and that many states have chosen to adopt regulatory standards that are more stringent than Federal ones.

I think pipelines are going to play an important role in America's energy future, too.

I think one of the greatest threats to pipeline safety and integrity--and it has been talked about at some length today--comes from accidental damage due to digging and excavation.

What role do you see new technologies playing to improve the safety of pipelines?

Moving ethanol by pipeline would be cheaper, more efficient, and safer than moving the product by truck or rail.

I don't know how you deal with the USF issue, which, by the way, is an issue I care deeply about.

It seems, to me at least, that what we're talking about here is whether or not we're going to depart from the light-touch Title I information services approach.

Can the USF proposals in the National Broadband Plan be carried out without reclassifying broadband under Title II?

Why would we rather take the $50 to $60 billion in private investment, put that in jeopardy, and try and shoehorn that around this issue?