This is important.
I think it needs to be visited very seriously.
I think we here in this Energy Committee have been spending a lot of time, probably an extraordinary amount of time, on ...
I appreciate your comments today about it.
I think it should be noted that certainly within Alaska and many who are looking at this issue back here, there appears ...
the issues that are front and foremost for us as Alaskans are really key to our everyday opportunity to either have an e...
We think all of you are highly qualified for the positions you've been nominated for.
I want that assurance that you still remain engaged in the policy level, the decisionmaking that goes on.
I feel very strongly that we ought to be pushing to get at less than 1 percent leakage from the well to the consumer.
I have taken the position that as significant as that refuge area is... we should be working every day to give equal pro...
I think it's important to have your leadership there. I want it made very clear that I have that confidence in you.
Senator Murkowski and Senator Landrieu, in my view, have been very constructive, you know, in terms of trying to think a...
But it seems that that only happens to favor conservation, unfortunately, not production.
What I'm particularly interested in here is trying to find a way to make common cause between all the communities where ...
The leadership that you've demonstrated as the Acting Chair, I think, has been very important.
I know that I can speak, probably speak, hopefully speak for the chairman on this, that others on the committee will as ...
Senator Murkowski and I have, in a bipartisan way, made it a priority to look at how we're going to fund the parks for t...
I don't want us to be going backward at a time when we need to be making forward progress.