I am proud to be a co-sponsor of this important bill.

this bill would benefit Colorado by utilizing the streamlined national environmental policy provisions within the Healthy Forests Restoration Act for treatment projects in emergency areas.

I support it. It is a bill that would ensure States could use abandoned mine land payments for both coal and non-coal reclamation.

this bill would not diminish or affect the right of private property owners.

Your leadership is critical to the preservation of this First Colony site.

The area I wanted to focus on, but I also wanted to follow up on what Senator Warner was asking about--the first area is, these other countries where they've had attacks, you know the Moscow subway, what went on in Madrid and London--are…

I would like to thank Chairman Bingaman and Ranking Member Murkowski.

This legislation holds historic significance not only to Japanese Americans, Californians, but for Americans nationwide.

we look forward to working with Senator Casey, Senator Barrasso, Chairman Bingaman and the rest of the Committee to advance CCS in the context of comprehensive climate and energy legislation.

The topic of reducing greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide emissions, remains of great concern to this committee and to myself.

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Each day we use the transportation system to get to work, school, shopping and play.

I am a cosponsor of that legislation. I think it is needed, and I hope that we can move on that at some point.

The biggest cause of damage to bridges are large overweight trucks.

What is needed is a sanction because we have hit the wall in a number of States in opposition.

I have heard that this sort of culture change has occurred in metro areas that have a larger proportion of bicyclists and that their roads are safer for all users as a result.

Madam Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing on transportation safety. It is a critical issue for us to address as we work through the reauthorization process.

the unfortunate reality is that our transportation system is often far from safe.