If we miss this opportunity or don't cease to rise to the occasion, then shame on all of us.

This nation is committed to getting this right.

Our goal is clean water, and that is best achieved by focusing more on facilitating compliance and less on punitive enforcement mechanisms.

This is a bipartisan effort, but--and the chairman and I are friends and he knows me well enough, he knows that nobody does passive-aggressiveness like Minnesotans.

I and jointly with Ranking Member Tim Bishop have written a letter to the House Appropriations Committee requesting their support in directing EPA resources towards pilot projects.

This is a pivotal moment that we are at, pivotal.

I think all of us where you get it, we are trying to separate adequate resources from effective use of those resources.

I stand with you to get it done.

I am concerned with the process by which this interpretive rule was effectively finalized.

This is one of our greatest opportunities to make lasting improvement.

What we do possibly within the next weeks and months will have decades long implications.

I think it is a good bridge between our Nation's farmers and our children.

I supported the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010 when it passed on a bipartisan basis to overwhelming support.

I do not think we should be rolling back or postponing the standards right now.

We have made some progress in at least stabilizing the rate of childhood obesity in part because of the reforms that have been enacted.

I would shudder to think what Indian Country would look like without the revenues that come in from Indian gaming.

If Indian gaming vanished tomorrow and all those needs shifted to Federal trust responsibility, what would that look like?

There is a lot of debate about gaming in general. But one aspect that is undeniable is the economic development benefit of Indian gaming to tribes.