Last year, following the oil spill, Chairman Bingaman, Senator Udall, and I introduced legislation that would have set a...
As we are looking at legislation to address concerns about permitting and drilling, one concern I have is that we not re...
I very much appreciate what you're saying. We would love to have you up to our State to take a look at it.
I think there's a huge opportunity to streamline our regulations, to look at the cost of adhering to the regulations and...
the regulations that they see that are passed by our government really make it difficult whether you want to start your ...
I hope that we take that to heart here, and a lot of times cutting through the red tape to make it easier for us to--the...
this week, I heard from a number of large companies who argue on the tax code that we're not competitive
If there were such a thing as a dirt index—and I believe there should be.
they're anxious to bring jobs and manufacturing plans and revenue back to this country, but they have a 35-percent corpo...
It seems to me that that would be a better way to rank it and rate it, based on risk of activity.
Security at our nation's ports is critically important to our safety and to our economy.
I hope that, to the extent we can, we do move to a universal screening process for those that are in the same category.
I think it's very important. Because, obviously, one of the issues we wanted to address, post-9/11, was the coordination...
We certainly don't want a security program in place that gives the appearance of making us more secure, but in reality d...
Well, that only works, though, if you've got an election or a system of democracy that actually works and is not corrupt...
Let me change subjects, before my time is up, because last week, during our hearings, a few of the witnesses suggested t...
As we look at what it will take to sustain the Afghan security forces at their current levels, obviously we're on an uns...
It is deeply troubling that the GAO investigators were able to access secure facilities at U.S. ports during covert test...