Mountaintop mining is politically sensitive because environmentalists were an active force behind Obama's election.
I want to emphasize today the importance of maintaining and protecting America's natural resources.
The Obama administration is being forced into a political compromise. It has sacrificed a strong position on mountaintop...
I believe these two values are complementary. Put another way, environmental protection can coexist with job creation an...
This is exactly the sort of shovel-ready infrastructure spending for which there is a broad bipartisan consensus.
I know a clean extension is something that the Republicans want.
There is going to be one large crescendo in this Country during the next couple of months to let the people of America k...
We have enormous exploding debt and we should not add to it.
I can remember when we went through the crisis in September. At that time, I reminded everyone that we had a problem 10 ...
I objected to it then and, for every year since then I have been trying to get it back.
I want to say that I agree with Senator Vitter.
Now, we are going to have to have more money.
I'm very pleased we are having this hearing today. This is a critical issue.
I will be supporting your nomination.
What is good for the East Coast is not necessarily good for the rest of the United States.
Unfunded mandates are the worst enemy we have.
Are you committed now to try to put something together where we will have some assurance that we are protecting small bu...
I would hope that you would commit to going back to how we were handling that and the successes that we have had in the ...
