This is, in my view, a national security imperative, that we find ways, and start planning for that time in the future.

The RPS has been estimated to create, if passed in its current form as proposed, 185,000 new jobs, $66 billion in new investment.

It's time that we finally pass this provision in both houses and include it in legislation that we send to the President.

The renewable standard can reduce our dependence on fossil fuel sources, can reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

I commend you for this important legislation.

This is not the sole solution to global--to climate change and to carbon, but it is a major component to it.

I wanted to preserve the terms and conditions that were negotiated between the CNMI government and the federal government under the Proclamation while, at the same time, gaining control of the submerged lands around the Mariana Islands.

The CNMI is the only U.S. jurisdiction that does not have ownership of the submerged lands three miles off its shores.

Thank you for your attention to H.R. 934, a bill that conveys certain submerged lands to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), which I introduced on February 10, 2009.

We ought to be requiring that they do adopt these best practices where there's general agreement that these are best practices.

Well obviously at least it strikes me at first impression that we ought to be requiring that they do measure those types of issues.

ACLI thanks Senators Kohl, Bingaman and Isakson for their bi-partisan sponsorship of S. 2832, the Lifetime Income Disclosure Act.

I think when we talk about efficiency we're going to have to be analyzing whether we invest more in rail or do we invest more in roads?

You were known as someone who was fair, someone who allowed openness and the ability to speak.

I think this is an excellent nomination by Barack Obama.

I'm sorry that we are losing Senator Salazar as a member of this committee and a member of the Senate, but I'm delighted by his nomination.

In my view, President-elect Obama could not have chosen a better nominee.

The water challenges of America are important to all of us.