this is a fight about coal. The war on coal continues here in Washington.
I take it very personally when someone says we potentially could ban the exporting of coal and/or natural gas.
I held a hearing in which I pressed the FCC to make sure that those reforms help bring wireless service to rural areas that do not have it n...
The decisions the Federal Communications--FCC makes under your leadership, should you be confirmed--and then I'll stop saying that--the futu...
Updating the E-Rate program to meet the needs of the 21st century is necessary for our children and our national competitiveness.
I feel strongly about this, and I have ever since September 11, 2001; and before that, really, when we went into Kuwait and none of the bran...
But it takes a two-thirds majority to override it, your decision.
I thought I threw you a softball, and you hit it all the way to the pitcher's mound, but I still think you are terrific.
Oh. That is me.
I think consensus has a place in politics but consensus doesn't have a place in science.
What are your goals for the growth of nuclear energy overall and how do you believe the budget put forward by your agency can successfully a...
I am just concerned with that, not only the direction but also because I found that I am trying to reconcile the information that your offic...
I believe that our national labs such as Argonne National Lab in my home State of Illinois can play a key role in devising an enhanced nucle...
We are deeply concerned about consolidation. We think it is being driven by regulation.
I want to take this in a little different direction. You know, there is postcrisis research regarding community banks showing that public be...
And we have a progressive tax system here in this country, and it ought to remain progressive.
I believe history has proven, back in the 1960s under President Kennedy, when he lowered taxes, that the economy took off and we had more re...
The same was true in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. When he cut taxes, we increased revenue.
