I'm not wedded to my proposal, Senator Landrieu, and if there are other people who have better ideas, we ought to figure out a way of moving forward with those ideas.

These conservation efforts are just about protecting, as we all know, about protecting the landscape for us to gaze at.

Water really is the lifeblood of our communities and that we need to do a lot more with respect to how we protect that very precious resource.

We need to move forward with getting ourselves out of the great dependence that we have on foreign oil.

We need to address the issues of global warming, which are real.

$900 billion, yes, were being credited to the Land and Water Conservation Fund but it never gets there.

Hopefully, we can stop robbing LWCF so that we can support more of these projects in the future.

I certainly support the Chairman's legislation to help do that.

Toyota continued to put company profits above the safety of the American people.

But, the reality is, too many Toyota vehicles driven over the past 10 years haven't been safe.

Once again, Chairman Rockefeller, you are focusing this committee on consumer protection, and I thank you for that. It's absolutely critical.

NHTSA's defects and compliance investigations have led to more than 500 recalls involving the recall of 23.5 million vehicles.

But, sir, this is your document. This is a Toyota document, and it used the terms that you 'saved' that amount of money.

NHTSA did not permit Toyota to influence its decisions.

I look forward to seeing that because this chart is pretty doggone revealing, in terms of the spikes and then how long it took to get actual action.

This hearing's about helping ensure the safety of American drivers. It's about uncovering why hundreds of instances of sudden acceleration occurred for so long.

The Federal regulating agency, NHTSA, is also to blame.

the Deficit Reduction Commission that the President is establishing is the right thing to be doing for the long term.