What I pray is that through a superb Chairman and through people like Patty Murray, the head of the Budget Committee, and others, that we wi...
Now, in a nation in which 40 million people have no health insurance, a nation where we spend almost twice as much per capita on health care...
You cannot hire people without paying them. You cannot build stuff without paying for it.
I have a fear about what we will do as a Congress to support you so that we are not just blathering bromides of good feeling and good will.
I hope very much that we will be able to do that and I hope we will be able to do that before we leave here for the recess.
No person who put their lives on the line to defend this country should be homeless.
I do believe that if we're going to say this planet and make it habitable for our kids and our grandchildren, we have to rethink some of the...
extreme storms continue to cost us billions of dollars each year.
At the 50th anniversary I think we need to give it a good old try.
I'm not a believer in all of the above. I know it's a catchy bumper sticker statement.
I do believe that now is the time to transform our energy system.
the extent of forest fires today and the frequency of them, clearly, has a lot to do with the warming of the planet.
I think we have to limit what we are talking about.
the most important issue facing our planet is not being discussed.
I have been a champion of funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund since I got here almost 20 years ago.
if we do not move away from fossil fuels and transform our energy system away from oil and coal and gas to sustainable energy and energy eff...
It has only been funded, fully funded, to the authorization level twice.
What kind of insanity is it that we go through the whole effort of somebody diagnosing a disease, here's the therapy, and, oh, it's too bad ...