I do not want to sit here as a member of this committee like some people did in the 1940s and closed their eyes to what ...
How ready can you be if you have not practiced together? That is the question. And it is really a problem.
I am a co-sponsor of the Cyber Warrior Act of 2013, which requires the creation of National Guard Cyber Response Teams i...
I think that she made an excellent point earlier about really focusing, Secretary, on the academies.
Let's be clear about the facts from the May 2013 EIA report on fossil fuels from Federal lands.
This conspiratorial stuff that we have heard for decades now about the manipulation of all oil prices... is aluminum hat...
I take great interest in the priorities laid out in the budget for several reasons-it directly funds and provides progra...
Well, thank you so much, Chairman Nelson and Ranking Member Wicker. It really is a pleasure and truly an honor to be ask...
I think in RESTORE we found a balance, and I hope that those administering this will seek that same balance.
If we had not passed the RESTORE Act, all of that money would have come, under previous law, to the Federal Treasury.
I want to focus on the portions of this budget that deal with oil and gas revenues and permitting.
Every dollar spent conserving habitat, restoring water quality, protecting coastal and marine resources, and strengtheni...
I'm going to be watching this budget very carefully.
If we can do it right and learn how to do it right in the Gulf, in the greatest democracy in the world with the stronges...
I am proud to be able to say today that all three financing mechanisms established in the wake of the 2010 oil spill to ...
I expect Commerce as Chair of the Council to ensure this Congressionally-crafted balance is not altered or amended throu...
We crafted the RESTORE Act, I think it was, if I can say, it was masterful, the way we tried to balance.
It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use these penalty monies to jumpstart some of these very needed restoration pr...