I am convinced we can find common ground.
I think we ought to be more optimistic about this.
I would take modest exception to my friend's characterization that IPAB takes the control out of Congress and puts it inevitably towards rat...
Congress has the authority and I believe the responsibility to ensure that the Agency... does so with transparency and accountability.
I view that legislative language as a starting point for today's conversation.
These talks continue to make progress, and I appreciate the good faith commitment of the staffs to this work.
Chairman Genachowski explained that the agency has already improved the transparency of the Commission in several regards.
This is the kind of process I'd like to see used more often at the FCC.
It is not your business to tell the people of Vermont that they have to keep open a nuclear power plant that they don't want.
I would just leave you with this thought. In order to do that, one has to have an understanding kind of what are the highest risk areas.
What are a couple that you would highlight for us?
So one of the other issues that has been discussed in the past has been automatic depressurization systems.
My concern--and it sounds like you are echoing this--is that we essentially put home ownership out of reach of families.
The statistics on 2010 alone, preventing 160,000 cases of premature mortality, reducing heart attacks by more than 100,000.
It has always been the argument and it has never been the case.
I was one of the Senators that advocated fiercely for that change.
The only path toward achieving United States energy security is to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
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