the Department of Defense has an obligation to do absolutely everything that it possibly can do to be open, transparent, comforting, support...
Sometimes. In any event, Mr. Chairman, thank you for that.
S. 1966 has some strong language bias, in my view, for timber contracts rather than stewardship contracts.
I want to start just by commending the work that he has done on stewardship contracts.
The West Virginia spill clearly highlights the huge impacts accidental releases of chemicals can have on our health and well being.
Reasonable environmental standards are not about burdens on the industry, they are protections for people and for taxpayers.
We must be vigilant to ensure that these cleanup costs are met by the company.
one of the reasons why the market has changed so much, is because of this technology that's been developed, horizontal drilling, but also hy...
Thank you very much, Chairman King, for holding this very, very important hearing on our democracy.
Our campaign finance system is failing and it is broken.
Billionaires may keep spending, but they cannot keep hiding.
This is a huge amount of money flooding into the system, and I think it corrupts the system.
Fundamentally, the Republican Commissioners seem not to believe in the campaign finance laws that Congress has passed and that they are boun...
Campaign finance reform historically has been a bipartisan issue. I hope it will be again.
I really appreciate your statement that we are going to have a vote this year on a constitutional amendment. I think it is about time.
The American people deserve to know who is spending all this money to influence their vote.
It is a broken system based on a flawed premise that spending money on elections is the same thing as free speech.
This is not about free speech, and the American people know it.
